A Galston woman has been banned from driving for a year after being found more than three times the drug-driving limit.

Jenna Christine Ledgerwood, 37, of Ayr Road, was stopped by police at the Q8 service station at the Bellfield Interchange near Kilmarnock.

She pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle when the proportion of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol - the active ingredient in cannabis - in her blood was 6.7 microgrammes per litre of blood.

The limit in Scotland is 2 microgrammes per litre of blood.

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard how police on mobile patrol stopped Ledgerwood at 12.02am on January 16. She provided a specimen of saliva that produced a positive result.

Ledgerwood's lawyer told the court that she had a clean licence, lived with her family, had part-time employment at a supermarket, and was on Universal Credit.

She was heading home from work that night, and had been having trouble sleeping and so resorted to the use of cannabis.

Ledgerwood, the lawyer said, now attends a local recovery hub, and her cannabis use has been “cut down significantly”.

Sheriff Nicola Patrick told Ledgerwood: “I will take into account that you do have a clean driving record, but the reading was still relatively high.”

She was disqualified from driving for 12 months, and handed a fine of £520.