A man has been ordered to pay hundreds of pounds in compensation after deliberately damaging a car.

Lee Scott Birks, 27, of Moorside Drive, Maryport, appeared before District Judge Gerald Chalk at West Cumbria Magistrates Court in Workington.

He admitted damaging the side panel of a Citroen Picasso, intending to damage or destroy it.

Birks was fined £115 and ordered to pay £300 compensation and £85 court costs.