A MAN has been ordered to complete 160 hours of unpaid work after failing to provide a specimen for analysis.

Bogdan Makowski was stopped by police at Melbury House in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, on December 5 last year during their Christmas crackdown on drink and drug drivers. In total, 46 people were charged between December 1 and 30.

Bournemouth magistrates heard Makowski, who required an interpreter in court, was asked to provide a specimen when "suspected of having driven a vehicle" but failed to do so. The 46-year-old, from West Cliff Gardens, admitted the offence and was handed a 12 month community order and banned from driving for 20 months.

Last year's crackdown saw a 16 per cent rise in the number of people arrested compared with 2014.

Many of those charged have been sentenced at Weymouth Magistrates Court, including Simbarashe Nigel Nxele, who was charged driving with 59 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath on December 12. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.

Nxele, 28, of Blandford Camp, admitted the offence and was fined £300 and disqualified for 12 months.

Shaftesbury resident Nicholas Tomlinson, 25, admitted failing to provide a specimen for analysis to police after being charged with the offence on December 11.

The defendant, of Allen Road, was fined £200 and had his licence endorsed with 10 points.

A grieving widower struggling to cope with the death of his wife was caught driving 'erratically' in Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester, while at more than twice the limit.

Jan Zajac, 63, was fined £350 and banned from driving for 18 months after admitting the offence, which took place on December 18 - four days after the death of his wife.

Zajac, of West Milton, Bridport, had 85 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml breath after drinking wine to help him sleep the night before and a glug of whisky when he awoke.

Mitigating, Ian Brazier said: "He was in a state of considerable shock and it can be said the rate his body was dealing with the alcohol was very slow."

James Hewetson, 49, of Allington, Bridport, was charged on December 2 with driving with 57 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml breath. He entered a guilty plea and was fined £400 and disqualified for 40 months.