drinking drivers

THE following peopie
recently appeared in
North Vancouver court
in connection with
drinking and driving
related offences:

Andrew McCorriston, 58,
of Vancouver, was fined $300
and had his driver's licence

suspended for 12> months
after he pleased guilty to

impaired driving.
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Brian Garry Blower, 51, of

Vancouver, was fined $500
and had his driver’s licence
suspended for three months

after he was found guilty of

impaired driving.

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In London in November,
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Also in London,
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