The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates:

Sameer Ali, 26, of Abbeydale Drive, Rhodesway; original offence of failure to deliver up licence re-opened, £120 fine, £35.84 vehicle excise back duty, £60 costs. Stacey Brown, 32, of Perth Avenue, Bolton; keeping an unlicensed vehicle on a public road, £100 fine, £60 costs. David Peter Chambers, 30, of Club Street, Lidget Green; keeping an unlicensed vehicle on a public road, £175 fine, £15.84 vehicle excise back duty, £60 costs.

Mathew Bentham Clifford, 28, of Mitchell Terrace, Bingley; keeping an unlicensed vehicle on a public road, £525 fine, £217.92 vehicle excise back duty, £60 costs. Jozef John Colligan, of Moorside Road, Eccleshill; failure to notify change of registered keeper of vehicle, £175 fine, £75 costs. Martin Cosgrove, of Fenwick Drive, Woodside; failure to deliver up a vehicle excise licence upon receipt of a dishonoured cheque, £350 fine, £62.50 vehicle excise back duty, £60 costs. Ralph Stafford Dean, aged 60, of Tyersal Lane, Tyersal; failure to notify change of registered keeper of vehicle, £175 fine, £75 costs.

Amer Ali, 28, of Toller Lane, Heaton; theft, £65 fine, £100 costs. Kenneth Andrew Hall, 55, of Parry Lane, Laisterdyke; assault, jailed for four months suspended for 24 months, £85 costs. Garry Bland, 39, of Balfour Street, West Bowling; causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, failure to ensure animal welfare, 24 months’ community order, 250 hours’ unpaid work, £250 costs, banned from owning any animal for ten years.

Anthony Hugh Harrison, 41, of Balfour Street, West Bowling; causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, failure to ensure animal welfare, breach of disqualification from owning any animal imposed after conviction, 24 months’ community order, 200 hours’ unpaid work, £250 costs, banned from owning any animal for life.

We wish to point out that all the information in this court file is provided by the magistrates’ court, which collates the details largely from prosecutors and the police. In calculating the amount of any fine, the court takes into account the income of the offender as well as the seriousness of the offence.