All of these cases involving people from Oldham have been before the magistrates in the last fortnight.

A woman who was carrying a weightlifting bar and using it as a weapon has been sentenced.

Johanne Towers, of Wrigley Head Crescent, Failsworth, was on the street on February 27 when she was found to be carrying a gym bar.

The 49-year-old also assaulted a woman on the same day.

At Tameside Magistrates' Court on April 4, Towers pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon in a public place and common assault.

She was handed a community order, requiring her to carry out 10 days of rehabilitation activity requirement and to forfeit the gym bar for it to be destroyed.

She was also ordered to pay a fine of £80 and a victim surcharge of £114.

A man has been jailed after he was spotted with a woman who was banned from seeing.

David Handley, of Hawksley Street, Oldham, was seen with a woman in Royton on April 4, despite the fact he was prohibited from being with her as part of a restraining order issued in May last year.

Two days after he was seen with the woman, the 37-year-old pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order and was sentenced at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.

Handley was jailed for 16 weeks and was made to pay a victim surcharge of £154.

A man has been banned from the roads after driving whilst he was more than twice over the drink driving limit.

Charles Agyei, of Gower Street, Oldham, was driving on Yorkshire Street in the town centre on November 24 last year when he was found to have 91 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath.

The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath, putting the 44-year-old more than twice the limit.

At Tameside Magistrates' Court on April 5, Agyei was sentenced after pleading guilty back on January 4.

He was banned from driving for 23 months, minus the 23 weeks he had been banned since the incident, and must attend 15 days of rehabilitation activity requirement as part of a community order.

Agyei was also ordered to carry out 40 hours of unpaid work and must pay a victim surcharge of £114 and further costs of £85.