Nottingham Post published Learner banned from the roads for drink-driving after picking up...

A drink driver got a 17-month roads ban for nipping to the shops to collect his pregnant partner and a toddler. Lee Hemsell was over the legal limit after downing two cans of beer, said Emma Barker, mitigating at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.She said the mum had "run out of taxi money and was stuck in Asda". Learner driver Hemsell had not planned to go out in the car that evening.Read more: Failed robber jailed after victim refuses to let go of handbag"But he wanted to help his...