A KITCHEN joiner has told a court that he will lose his job after he was caught drink driving.

At Bolton Magistrates' Court Paul Doxey said he needed his licence to drive for work and will now be unemployed.

Steve Woodman, prosecuting, told how police had spotted Doxey in an Audi A6 on Chorley Old Road at 11.30pm on November 21 and followed it towards Tonge Moor Road.

"They saw it nearly lose control a couple of times and brought the Audi to a stop," he said.

Doxey refused to give a roadside breath sample but an hour later, at the police station, a reading showed that he had drunk double the legal level of alcohol.

Representing himself in court Doxey, Brailsford Road, Bolton, pleaded guilty to drink driving.

He said: "I'm sorry. If I lose my licence I will lose my job and I'll lose everything."

A driving ban is mandatory for drink driving offences and magistrates disqualified Doxey from holding a licence for 15 months. He was also fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs plus a £32 victim surcharge.

Chairman of the bench Scott Cowap told Doxey: "I don't need to tell you what you have already reflected on — you probably already realise that, as a professional driver, being caught by police for driving with excess alcohol is a crazy thing to be caught for."