COURT: Worcester Magistrates A DRUNK driver has been given a curfew after admitting driving while disqualified. Daniel Hallissey pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle when his alcohol level was above the legal limit and driving whilst disqualified when he appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court. Shafquat Reaz, prosecuting, said Hallissey, who was driving a Ford Mondeo, was stopped by police on the Droitwich section of the M5 on April 9. After police spoke to the 35-year-old, of Waterside Park, Offerton Lane, Worcester, he was suspected of drink driving, so was taken to Worcester Police Station where a sample showed he had 43 mcg in alcohol in 100ml of breath, above the legal limit of 35mcg.
UK’s rarest cars: the innovative Fiat 127 is almost extinct after 50 years
The 127 was one of the UK’s best-selling imported cars of the 70s and early 80s, but today there are only 103 still being used on the road
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Every successful subsequent small car followed the Fiat s front-wheel drive formula. This is a Series 1 car produced from 1971 to 1977
Fifty years ago this month, Fiat startled many of its more traditionally-minded customers. For the past 16 years, the motoring public associated the company’s small cars with rear-mounted engines, but here was a front-wheel-drive saloon with a transversely mounted engine driving the front wheels. The 127 set the modern supermini template, with the Volkswagen Polo, Ford Fiesta and Austin Metro following in its wake.
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Ian and Kathryn Hutchinson s Battlefield Stud enjoyed a 40-1 surprise at the weekend when former graduate Dragon Bones won the Listed mares novice hurdle at Doncaster on her first start over obstacles for trainer Ian Williams and owner Jack Turton.
Bred by All Things Rural, the six-year-old was also providing her in-form sire Passing Glance with another black-type success, following on from last month s Ascot Chase winner Dashel Drasher.
Dragon Bones was produced out of Kadalko mare Sainte Kadette, a winner of minor races in Ireland and France as well as a juvenile hurdle at Cheltenham, from the family of the classy Yala Enki.
Kelly and Rhys Jenkins, owners of Wild Wales Seeds, with their daughters Ffion and Freya A VALE of Glamorgan business is thriving – despite opening during the coronavirus pandemic. Wild Wales Seeds was launched in March when farmer Rhys Jenkins learnt that his family was going to lose much of the 250 acres they had farmed for generations across the Vale. The land is earmarked for development but the land the family personally owned wasn’t big enough to continue their farming business. So Mr Jenkins launched Wild Wales Seeds, which produces seeds – the first in Wales - and sells them and they have a customer base ranging from local people wanting to improve their gardens to local authorities.