06:58 EDT, 22 January 2021
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An anti-lockdown protester who filmed inside a hospital in a bid to claim the coronavirus pandemic is a massive scam has been charged with a public order offence.
Debbie Hicks wandered around Gloucester Royal Hospital last month saying it was shut down and dead and was arrested in her dressing gown by two officers who visited her home in Stroud 24 hours later.
Now Hicks - a comrade of Jeremy Corbyn s anti-vaxxer brother Piers - has been charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress over the video.
A Dursley man who drove with excess levels of cocaine in his blood has been banned from the roads for 14 months. Shane Stephens, 36, of Third Avenue, Highfield, pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates Court last Friday to driving in Tredworth Road, Gloucester, with cocaine and Benzoylecgonine (a cocaine metabolyte) in his body at illegal levels. The incident occurred on April 20, 2020. Mr Stephens has been fined £120 and ordered to pay £40 costs and a £34 surcharge to fund victim services. The magistrates gave him until January 29 to pay the total due of £194.
Twice the amount of drug drivers were on our roads this winter compared to last year, despite Covid-19 restrictions affecting the amount of people going to pubs. 130 people were arrested for drink or drug driving related offences over the course of the Constabulary s winter anti-drink and drug drive campaign. This is compared to 98 people arrested the previous year during the same period. 70 people were arrested for drug driving offences, compared to 36 people during the same operation last year, seeing the number of offenders double. 60 people were arrested for drink driving offences, compared to 61 last year, seeing the number of drink drivers on our roads stay roughly the same.
Twice the amount of drug drivers were on our roads this winter compared to last year, despite Covid-19 restrictions affecting the amount of people going to pubs. 130 people were arrested for drink or drug driving related offences over the course of the Constabulary s winter anti-drink and drug drive campaign. This is compared to 98 people arrested the previous year during the same period. 70 people were arrested for drug driving offences, compared to 36 people during the same operation last year, seeing the number of offenders double. 60 people were arrested for drink driving offences, compared to 61 last year, seeing the number of drink drivers on our roads stay roughly the same.