A MAN has been fined and banned from driving for speeding on the A270.

Leon Mann has been ordered to pay a total of £550 by Brighton magistrates after being caught driving above 30mph on the A270 Lewes Road in Brighton on October 17 last year.

The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to the offence.

Mann, of Mayday Gardens, Greenwich, was fined £400 and disqualified from holding a driving licence for 56 days.

He will also have to pay £110 in court costs and a surcharge of £40 to fund victim services.