MOTORISTS from Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent have been in court recently across Wales and England for a range of motoring offences.

Offences include speeding outside a school, driving with a worn tyre, and refusing to identify a driver alleged to have been caught speeding.

Here is a round-up of cases heard at Magistrates Courts in Cardiff, Llanelli and Hereford.

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BEN GREGORY SPARKES, 32, of Greenway Drive in Griffithstown, has been ordered to pay £566 after being clocked doing 42mph in a 30mph zone.

Sparkes was caught speeding in his BMW 320D by a speed camera on Greenway Road, near the junction with Hendre Road, in Rumney on May 3.

When questioned by officers on June 7, he refused to identify the driver of the BMW, but at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Monday, November 1, he pleaded guilty.

Sparkes was fined £433, and ordered to pay £90 in costs and a £43 surcharge. He was also handed four points on his licence.

PAUL MEEK, 38, of Woolpitch in Greenmeadow, Cwmbran, has been fined after driving with a worn tyre.

Meek was stopped on June 6 on Frwdgrech Road in Brecon after officers noticed the underside of the front off-side tyre was exposed.

He pleaded guilty to a change of using a motor vehicle with tyre with any of the ply/cord exposed, and was fined £80 at Llanelli Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, November 3.

He must also pay £110 in costs and a £34 surcharge, and had three points added to his licence.

PAULA JENKINS, 58, of Kimberley Terrace in Georgetown, Tredegar, has admitted speeding in Powys.

Jenkins was caught by a manned speed camera driving her Mini Cooper at 41mph on the A40 Bwlch in Brecon – a 30mph zone – on June 27.

She was fined £100 at Llanelli Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, November 3.

She was ordered to pay £90 in costs and a surcharge of £34, and had four points added to her licence.

HARRIE GLYN GRIFFITHS, 22, of Princess Court in Sirhowy, was caught driving 10mph over the limit in Neath Port Talbot.

Griffiths was caught driving at 80mph on the A465 between Resolven and Glynneath on May 2.

They pleaded guilty, and were fined £123 at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, November 2.

Griffiths was also ordered to pay £90 in costs and a surcharge of £34, and had three points added to their licence.

MATTHEW PHELAN, 28, of Maesgwyn in Pontnewydd, must pay more than £800 for refusing to identify the driver of a Seat allegedly caught speeding in Worcestershire.

He was questioned by officers on May 12 relating to an alleged offence where the driver of a Seat Index was caught speeding in the 50mph A40 Trunk Road at Pencraig in Herefordshire on April 7.

A charge of failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle when required was proved using the Single Justice Procedure at Hereford Justice Centre on Thursday, November 4.

Phelan was fined £660, and ordered to pay £90 in costs and a £66 surcharge.

He had six points added to his licence.

LUDOVICO MACK, 31, of Castle Wood in Talywain, was caught speeding in an Audi A4 in Cardiff.

Mack was caught by a manned speed camera on the A470 Manor Way near Whitchurch High School on April 21 driving at 35mph.

He pleaded guilty, and was fined £100 at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, November 3.

Mack was also ordered to pay £90 in costs and a £34 surcharge, and had three points added to his licence.