A PENSIONER has been fined by magistrates after driving without due care and attention in Herefordshire.

Trevor Norris entered a guilty plea to one count of driving a vehicle on a road or public place without due care and attention when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford in June.

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The court heard from prosecutor Eleanor Peart that the 81-year-old had been behind the wheel of a white Jeep Cherokee when he had driven without due care and attention on the B4348 at Llandinabo in Herefordshire on December 12.

Norris, of Fishermans Reach, Wilton, was fined £80 and received five penalty points on his licence for the offence, with magistrates saying they had taken his guilty plea into account when imposing the penalty.

He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £32 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.