Nottingham Post published Pensioner admits drink-driving after offering to help a friend...

A pensioner blotted his long driving record after trying to help a friend with a late-night lift, a court heard. Retired accounts clerk David Bostock, 71, had four pints of beer and crashed into bollards as he drove along Manvers Street in Sneinton, magistrates in the city were told. He had used a bus to get home from a pub and planned to stay indoors for the rest of the night until the phone rang, said Amanda Parker, mitigating. "A lady asked him to collect her because she didn't...