A WOMAN has escaped a roads ban after she was caught using her mobile phone while driving in Herefordshire.

Jenny Samantha Bennett entered a guilty plea to magistrates in Worcester.

The court heard the 34-year-old had been caught using a mobile phone while behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Golf in Ledbury on March 12.

Bennett, of Hangmans Lane, Hanley Castle, was fined £230 and received six penalty points, but no totting disqualification was made as losing her licence would mean she was unable to take her children to school and that she was unable to care for her grandmother.

She must also pay costs of £90 and a £34 victim surcharge.