A NIGHTCLUB manager set off to drive home to Clitheroe after a night out drinking in Bolton.

Blackburn magistrates heard that Ross Robinson was stopped in Darwen because the rear bumper was missing from his car.

And a breathalyser showed him to be nearly three times the legal drink drive limit.

Robinson, 23, of The Crescent, Clitheroe, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.

He was banned from driving for two years and fined £750 with £58 costs.

Barry Dearing, defending, said Robinson was a young man who had made the wrong decision at the wrong time.

He said his client was the young and successful manager of two nightclubs in Bolton and when he was working never drank.

On the night of the incident he was not working and had been out with friends in Bolton.

During the course of the evening he lost contact with the friend he was meant to be staying with and went to a hotel where the club had an arrangement and he would have been able to stay but it was closed.

"For some reason he can't explain he went to his car and started to drive home," said Mr Dearing.

"That was a stupid silly mistake which he will be paying for a long time."