The Policía Local in Mijas stopped a driver around midnight and carried out a breathalyzer test – the driver, who was three times of the limit, was a 73-year-old British woman.

The patrol car had been on the A-7 near the border with Fuengirola, not far from Castillo Sohail, when they saw a car heading west, weaving all over the road, crossing from one lane to the other. They flipped on the blue lights and siren, yet the driver took no notice – they finally caught up with the driver near the El Faro de Calaburras exit, three kilometres further on.

As soon as they asked the woman for her driving docs, they noticed that Mrs J.S.P.F. was worse the wear for alcohol intake, so they made her take a breathalyzer test and lo… she had a 0.86 reading where the maximum permitted is 0.25.

But the police in that area are used to this sort of thing because four days previously they had stopped a driver along Avenida Dinamarca who actually had glass of rum and coke in his hand. His test results were more spectacular, reaching 1.02mg, bless his cotton socks.

(News: Mijas, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia