POLICE received a call to say that a man would be driving his car and he would be drunk.

And Blackburn magistrates heard that officers who arrested Philip Shaw found the caller to be correct.

Neil White, prosecuting, said police approached as Shaw parked on his drive and described the smell of drink as "overwhelming" when he opened the window. And when he was later breathalysed Shaw gave a reading of 119 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath against the legal limit of 35 in 100.

Shaw, 53, of Pleckgate Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol. He was jailed for four months and disqualified for three years after the magistrates heard it was his fourth similar offence in the last six years.

Stephen Parker, defending, said Shaw accepted that he had a problem with alcohol. He had largely controlled his problem in recent years but a series of events had driven him back to drink.