A BBC weather presenter has admitted to drink driving after she was found to be more than double the legal limit. 

When Jemma Cooper was pulled over in her Fiat 500 in August, a test revealed she had 71 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, well over the limit of 35.

She recently pleaded guilty to Bristol Magistrates Court which fined her £440, ordered her to pay a £44 victim surcharge and £85 court costs. 

Cooper, 48, was also banned from driving for 17 months, but that can be reduced to 130 days if she finishes a driving course by October next year. 

Last month a source told the Bristol Post that Cooper allegedly did not believe that coronavirus was real.

She would reportedly go to the BBC Bristol newsroom after attending anti-lockdown protests organised by Piers Corbyn, a well known anti-vaxxer and brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The source claimed BBC staff would find online videos of protests and try to spot Cooper, who they thought ‘should not have been attending protests then coming into the workplace’.

She said: ‘The staff were aware Jemma had been going on the marches. It was flying round the newsroom like wildfire.

‘We have rules in place where we’re being told we shouldn’t even be taking part in Black Lives Matter protests as BBC journalists – to go on a march against lockdown, what was Jemma thinking?’

When someone asked in an anti-lockdown WhatsApp group whether Cooper was ‘the weather girl’ she allegedly answered: ‘Yes alas I work for the devil at the moment.

‘I joined the corporation in 1999 when I was 28 and fully asleep. Comatose.’

In November, BBC bosses sent an email to staff informing them Cooper ‘had to be called away from the office unexpectedly until further notice.’

Cooper who appears on Bristol’s Points West programme, has been off the air for three months but is reportedly still contributing to news stories.

Metro.co.uk were unable to contact Jemma Cooper for comment.

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