A member of staff at Malsis School, in Glusburn, has been disqualified from driving.

Gareth William Archer, 22, pleaded guilty to drink-driving when he appeared at Skipton Magistrates' Court last Friday .

Prosecutor Caroline May said that at around 3.20am on December 9 police were called to a single vehicle collision on the A59 at Halton East.

Archer had left the road and crashed into a dry-stone wall in his Citroen Saxo.

Officers noticed that Archer's eyes were glazed and he was unsteady on his feet and they could smell alcohol on his breath. He was found to have 93 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35mgs.

In mitigation solicitor John Mewies said Archer came from New Zealand after being offered a job as a teaching assistant at Malsis School in the summer.

Linked with the job was the opportunity to play rugby for Ilkley.

Mr Mewies said Archer was driving an unfamiliar vehicle on an unfamiliar road when he lost control of the car.

However, he added that Archer accepted that he should not have been driving. Mr Mewies said the accused had been celebrating in Ilkley after a win with the rugby club.

He added that Archer felt bitterly ashamed that he had let down his employers at the school and the rugby club.

He said that Archer had borrowed the car from a governor at the school and would have to pay for the damage.

Archer - who gave his address as Malsis School - was fined £160 and disqualified from driving for 24 months.

He was also ordered to pay £50 costs and a £15 victims surcharge.