A Keighley driver caught for the second time without insurance was banned from driving for six months.

Delivery driver Ahmed Iqbal, 24, was stopped by police driving a Ford Mondeo in Ryeland Street, Cross Hills, at 1.40am on April 14. Iqbal told police he did not own the car, Skipton magistrates heard on Friday.

The car was seized by police after it was confirmed Iqbal was not covered to drive it.

Iqbal, of Salisbury Road, who already had nine points on his licence for using a mobile phone while driving and for no insurance, tried to argue he would suffer exceptional hardship if he was banned from driving. He told the court that as a delivery driver, he relied on his car, and without a job his family, including his mother, would suffer.

But magistrates imposed eight points, taking him over the maximum 12, triggering an automatic six-month ban.

He was also fined £225 and ordered to pay costs of £85.