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England and Gloucester rugby player Mike Tindall has been banned from driving for three years. | England and Gloucester rugby player Mike Tindall has been banned from driving for three years. |
The Gloucester centre, boyfriend of Zara Phillips, admitted being over the legal drink-drive limit on the M4 in Berkshire, on 15 March last year. | |
He was arrested the morning after attending the Cheltenham Racing Festival with Ms Phillips. | |
Tindall, 30, of Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, was also fined £500 with £75 costs by Reading Magistrates. | |
At the time of the offence, Tindall was out of action with a bruised liver, which he suffered playing against Wales. | |
He had been driving alone to Twickenham in a Range Rover Sport to commentate on England's Six Nations game against Ireland, on the the day of his arrest. | |
He was pulled over by the police on the motorway, near Newbury, where he failed a breath test and was subsequently charged. |