In court - the latest results for people from Chronicle country, where parents fined over £1,500 for truancies

On December 11

>A Stotfold mother was fined a total of £584 for failing to ensure her child attended school regularly.

>A Sandy father was fined a total of £380 for failing to ensure his child attended school regularly.

>A Stotfold father was fined a total of £584 for failing to ensure his child attended school regularly.

On December 13

> Paul Buckland aged 39 of Havelock Road, Biggleswade, was made the subject of a community order and fined a total of £259 after failing to act in accordance of a previous community order issued from a series of thefts from shops in Biggleswade.

> Ms Hayley McCann aged 31 of Garfield, Langford, was fined a total of £290, banned from driving for 24 months and issued with a community order after drink/driving on Sun Street in Biggleswade on November 11, and assaulting a police officer.

On December 18

> Tom Crane aged 31 of Park Lane, Henlow, was fined a total of £335 and received three penalty points for speeding in Bartin le Clay on June 1.

> Lawren Ellis aged 39 of Arlesey Road, Stotfold, was fined a total of £855 and received six penalty points for speeding on Leighton Road, Woburn on June 12.

> Mrs Lucy Magill aged 43 of The Rookery, Sandy, was fined a total of £335 and received three penalty points for speeding in Hitchin Road, Upper Caldecote on June 10.

> Darren Gordon aged 52 of Newton, Potton, was fined a total of £811 and banned from driving for six months for failing to inform police of the name of the driver of his car believed to have committed an offence.