A bus driver has been fined more than £200 by magistrates for driving without due care and attention in Bury St Edmunds.

Stacy Cocksedge, of Anselm Avenue in Bury St Edmunds, was fined £233 and given five points on the driving licence when appearing before Suffolk Magistrates' Court in Ipswich.

The 58-year-old was charged with driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road without due care and attention.

This was in relation to an incident on January 24 last year when an Optare bus was stopped in Bury Road in the west Suffolk town.

Cocksedge entered the guilty plea to the charge.

As well as being fined, Cocksedge was told to pay costs of £105 to the Crown Prosecution Service and a surcharge of £93 - bringing the total the defendant was told to pay out to £431.

The case was heard at Suffolk Magistrates’ Court and prosecuted by the solicitor Stuart Cowen.