A DRUG driver has been disqualified from the road for 18 months after admitting driving with an illegal level of cocaine in her blood.

Briony Shepherd, 31, of Norman Court, Caldicot, pleaded guilty at Newport Magistrates’ Court to having driven on the A449 with no less than 39 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood, exceeding the specified limit.

She was ordered to pay £85 in costs, a £114 surcharge and fined £120. Shepherd was also given a community order until October 2027.