A mother of three who drove twenty-three miles the wrong way along the M5 through North Somerset while drunk has been jailed for nine months.

Unemployed Deborah Hunt even forced a police car with it's blue lights flashing to dodge out of her way, as she drove up to Weston on the southbound carriageway in July.

Officers had to cross the motorway to arrest the forty-three year old, as she tried to restart her car in the hard shoulder after it ran out of petrol.