  Monday, 09 December 2013   Cumbrian delivery van driver drank
wine to ease hangover  A supermarket delivery driver who pulled
over for a swig of wine and then got stuck in a ditch has been
banned from the roads.  Karl Andrew Straughton, 24, of
Riverside, Great Clifton near Workington, was making a delivery
for Asda on July 19 when he started to feel hungover.  He pulled
over for a break and “foolishly” had a drink of wine, Carlisle
magistrates heard.  Pulling away, he misjudged the manoeuvre and
crashed the Mercedes Sprinter van into a ditch at Newton Arlosh
Village.  He was found to be over the drink-drive alcohol limit.
Helen Wallace, defending, said: “On the night before this he was
drinking heavily with a friend who had just come back from the
Falklands as a serving officer in the RAF.  “It is Straughton’s
ambition to join the RAF and they had spent the night drinking
vodka and lemonade.  “In the morning his father had given him a
lift to work.  “Towards the end of the day he was asked to do a
particul