A MAN has been disqualified from driving for 12 months after a drug driving incident.

Samuel Mcguiness, 37, from Hesters Road Way in Cheltenham, was sentenced at North Somerset Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (February 24).

He was driving a Ford Focus on Over Causeway, Gloucester, after having taken cocaine and benzoylecgonine.

Mcguiness was fined £120, had to pay £85 in costs and he has also been disqualified from driving for 12 months.

He pleaded guilty to the offence.