GLAMOUR model Dannii Harwood has been fined and ordered to pay more than £1,000 after Poole Magistrates found her guilty of a driving offence.

Harwood, who has appeared as a regular presenter on TV sex channel Babestation, had pleaded not guilty to charges of not having the full view of the road and traffic ahead and not being in proper control of a motor vehicle.

This related to an incident in June, this year, when the 35-year-old professionally-trained dancer was pulled over in her Maserati by a Dorset Police traffic officer.

The officer, PC Todd, told Poole Magistrates he'd spotted Harwood handling her mobile phone and looking at the screen while driving in slow-moving traffic.

However, Harwood - who was stopped along Wallisdown Road at 5pm on a Tuesday during busy rush-hour traffic - insisted she was stationary at the time and was not using the device, but just plugging it in.

She also told the court, during the hearing, that she'd been moving the phone to stop it falling from the central console into the footwell of her car.

Documents presented to magistrates from Harwood's phone provider showed she had not made any outgoing calls nor texts during the time of the offence.

Harwood, of Queens Park West Drive, Bournemouth, told the court: "I could feel the phone on my elbow, it had come slightly unplugged. I was worried it was going to fall and go into the footwell."

The model and television presenter said she'd seen the motorcycle patrolman before deciding to move the handset to a safer position, as she thought she was doing nothing wrong.

"He (PC Todd) commented about my car, asked if it was mine and where I was going," said Harwood. "He then asked where I worked. I work in the adult industry and I was under the impression he knew the answer, which was a bit awkward.

"He made me feel uncomfortable.

"I told him I wasn't using the mobile phone I was plugging it back in."

However, prosecution solicitor Alison Saunders put it to Harwood that PC Todd was simply engaging her in conversation as part of his job while the necessary checks were carried out.

Ms Saunders also reiterated to court how Harwood asked PC Todd to write an explanatory note on the ticket he issued at the roadside, which she signed.

These words read: "I was only plugging it in. It was slow moving traffic. It was falling (the phone) and distracting me."

Harwood was fined £360, ordered to pay a victim service charge of £6 and court costs of £620.

Her driving licence was also endorsed with three penalty points.