A NURSE-in-training has been fined and banned after she admitted drink driving.

Juliet Lewis, of Warren Drive in Broughton, appeared at Mold Magistrates Court on Thursday.

The 34-year-old admitted that on July 3 at Higher Kinnerton she drove a Mini motor vehicle on Main Road after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in her breath exceeded the prescribed limit.

She was found to have 73 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - the limit being 35.

Dianne Williams, prosecuting, said on the day of the offence police received a report of a Mini having collided with a taxi at the Swan in Higher Kinnerton.

Officers attended the address of the Mini's registered keeper and spotted the car parked opposite Lewis' home.

The door of the house was open and when police called out, she came to the top of the stairs holding her mobile and her car keys.

A roadside test was positive for alcohol and she was arrested, following which she gave the reading with which she was subsequently charged.

District Judge Gwyn Jones asked Lewis, who defended herself at the hearing, what she wished to tell the court.

She said: "I am training to be a nurse, I have worked every day since I was 16.

"I have two children and I have had to put my course on hold because of my driving.

"I was working part time but I have had to pack my job in as well, because it's not feasible to get there on public transport so I am unemployed now."

Giving her description of the incident, she told the court: "I didn't collide with the taxi - I touched the bumper when reversing at about one mile an hour.

"He came running out shouting, that was most likely the reason it startled me and I drove away."

The District Judge fined Lewis £150 and ordered her to pay a £32 victim surcharge as well as £85 costs.

The defendant was also banned from driving for 20 months.