A 35-YEAR-OLD woman has been given a suspended prison sentence for twice breaching a restraining order. Elizabeth Allen-Barras, of Tudor Close, Newark, pleaded guilty to contacting a man, who also lives in Newark, at 9pm and 11pm on January 28 while prohibited from doing so. Nottingham Magistrates' Court had put a restraining order on Allen-Barras in October preventing her from contacting the man. Allen-Barras was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, with a 12-month supervision order.

KEELY Sarah Gossling, 33, of Burford Road, Forest Fields, pleaded guilty to stealing perfume worth £33.99 from Superdrug in Nottingham city centre on January 31. She was given a nine-month community order, which included drug rehabilitation treatment. She was also ordered to pay £50 costs at Nottingham Magistrates Court.

A BESTWOOD man has been jailed after he admitted to stealing goods from three city centre premises. David Drummond Lambert, 37, of Belconnen Road, pleaded guilty to taking a Blackberry phone and an iPad from Boots Library, in Shakespeare Street, on January 11. He also admitted stealing a Blackberry phone, wallet, purse, and £19 cash from 1st Bowl, in Belward Street, on December 21 last year, and to taking £155 cash from the Britannia Hotel, in Maid Marian Way, Nottingham, on February 10. Lambert was jailed for a total of 240 days, due to his criminal record and having committed the offences while only recently having been released from prison.