A MERCEDES driver has been fined for speeding on the A27.

Joao Filipe Mendes has been ordered to pay a total of £270 by Crawley magistrates after being caught driving above 60mph on the A27 Newells Lane in West Ashling on December 10 last year.

The 29-year-old pleaded guilty to the offence.

Mendes, of Leominster Road, Portsmouth, was fined £146 and given three points on his licence.

He will also have to pay £90 in court costs and a surcharge of £34 to fund victim services.