A Rowley Regis man who admitted driving without due care and two offences of drug-driving has been banned for a year and ordered to pay £635 in fines and costs.

Mark Andrew Woodbine, aged 29, of Limes Avenue, was driving over the allowed limit with two different drugs in his blood at Buffery Road.

Other local cases at recent magistrates court hearings included:

A Brierley Hill teenager was given a 40-week suspended jail sentence when he appeared in court on five assault charges, four of them on emergency workers.

Reece Judd admitted attacks on two police officers and an assault on Luke Yewen, plus smashing his Iphone and denting the side of his car. All these offence took place in Coseley last July.

In a separate case he pleaded guilty to assaulting an ambulance technician and a paramedic in Mount Pleasant, Quarry Bank.

Judd, of Moor Street, was sentenced to a total of 40 weeks in jail, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work within the next year. He must also pay fines, costs and compensation totaling £750.

A Dudley man is risking a jail term after assaulting two women. Dylan Raybould, aged 25, of Conister Close, Quarry Bank, had initially denied the charges but changed his plea to guilty.

He admitted assault causing actual bodily harm to the first woman, and assault by beating in the second case.

He was given a 16-week jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered not to contact either woman. He was also ordered to do 120 hours voluntary work and must pay a total of £609 in compensation and costs.

A Halesowen man was given a conditional discharge for 12 months after he admitted interfering with a van or its contents ‘with the intention of theft.’ Christopher Kevin Page, aged 37, of Hagley Road, was ordered to pay a total of £157 in costs and victim surcharge.

Other local cases in magistrates court included:

A Dudley drink-driver has been banned, put on a curfew and ordered to pay £230. Ronan Soner Yarbasi, aged 20, of Stretton Place, admitted driving with 62 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath at Aston Road in December. The limit is 35. He also admitted driving without due care and attention. He was given a community order, banned from driving for two years, put on a 6-week electronic monitoring curfew from 5pm to 5am, and ordered to pay £135 costs and £95 into the victim fund.

Lewis John Trueman, of Russells Hall Road, Dudley, has been ordered to fines, costs and compensation totaling £369 after the 20-year-old admitted assaulting Faron Stone at Merry Hill in September.

A Halesowen driver who admitted speeding along a stretch of the M5 covered by a 50mph temporary limit has been ordered to pay £157. Sandeep Rajput, aged 48, of Drews Holloway, also had his licence endorsed with three points.

Michael Charles Killworth, aged 37, of Crossley Street, Netherton, was ordered to pay fines and costs totaling £252 after he admitted speeding in a 30mph zone at New Road, Worcester.

Stephen Bradley, aged 35, of Wallace Rise, Cradley Heath, must pay £170 in fines and costs after he admitted not having his vehicle insured.

Russell Phillip Smith, aged 40, of High Park Avenue, Wollaston, Stourbridge, has had a community order extended until September after he admitted failing to carry out the unpaid work required on an original order imposed last March.

A Dudley driver who was more than 2.5 times above the alcohol limit has been banned for 23 months. Kim Louise Hyde, aged 55, of Clarence Street, Upper Gornal, had 207 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood while driving on Hill Street. The limit is 80. She was placed on a community order and must pay £340 in fines and costs.

Stealing £45 worth of confectionary from the One Stop shop in Dudley has cost Leigh-Anne Brownhill £216 in fines, costs and compensation. Brownhill, aged 34, of Park Road, Lower Gornal, was on a conditional discharge for a previous theft when she committed the new offence. She pleaded guilty.