THE following cases were heard at Poole Magistrates' Court:

CHRISTOPHER LESLIE COLIN TOWNER, 57 and of no fixed address, admitted failing without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a community order made by Poole Magistrates Court on October 25, 2023. He was handed an eight-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months. He was also ordered to pay costs of £60.

CHALIE PARKES, 28 and of Stourvale Mews in Bournemouth, admitted driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road / in a public place without due care and attention and being the driver of a vehicle fail to stop after a road accident, in Holdenhurst Road in Bournemouth on May 11. He was handed a community order lasting until June 2, 2025, and disqualified from driving for nine months. He was also fined £50, ordered to make a victim surcharge of £114 and costs of £85 to the Crown Proescution Service.

DYLAN THOMAS FRANK CONEY-LAX, 30 and of Hayes Avenue in Bournemouth, admitted failing without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a community order made by Poole Magistrates Court on March 1. The community order was varied to contain new requirements. He was also fined £80 and ordered to pay costs of £60.

CHRISTOPHER JOHN HOLMES, 69 and of Talbot Road in Southsea, admitted using a vehicle for which a plating certificate had been issued, when the train weight shown on the certificate, namely 6,000 kilograms, was exceeded, on the A31 at Ashley Heath on June 13. He was fined £200, ordered to pay costs of £197 and a victim surcharge of £80.

ISOTECH SPRAYFOAM LIMITED, a Southsea based company, admitted using a vehicle for which a plating certificate had been issued, when the train weight shown on the certificate, namely 6,000 kilograms, was exceeded, on the A31 at Ashley Heath on June 13. The company was fined £1000, ordered to pay costs of £182 and a victim surcharge of £250.

LUKE THOMAS JAMES, 33 and of Lake Avenue in Poole, admitted retaining on board a quantity of shortnecked clams the minimum conservation reference size contrary to regulations in Poole Harbour on October 21, 2023. He admitted retaining on board, storing and transporting a dredge within Poole Harbour between November 15 and December 23, 2023, when not all conditions attached to the permit were complied with. He was fined £2300, ordered to pay costs of £5873.10 and a victim surcharge of £920.

SCOTT FLYNN, 46 and of Windham Road in Bournemouth, admitted driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, namely cocaine at a level of 2.6 ug/L, in Spencer Road in Bournemouth on March 15. He admitted driving a motor vehicle when alcohol level above limit, namely 47 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, in Old Christchurch Road in Bournemouth on May 28. He was disqualified from driving for 16 months. He was also fined £400 and ordered to pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service.

LEAH HARDY, 46 and of Pinewood Road in Christchurch, admitted two counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, namely 33 mg of cocaine and 50 mg of Benzoylecgonine per litre of blood, in Ringwood Road in Poole on October 1, 2023. She was disqualified from driving for three years. She was also fined £800, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £320 and costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service.