Scotsman

SIR SEAN CONNERY’S brother Neil has been preparing for a lengthy road ban - by doing up his driveway.

Neil Connery, 64, admitted driving at almost three times the legal alcohol limit when he appeared in court last week.

The ex-plasterer faces a driving ban or even jail when he is sentenced later this month. But in recent days Mr Connery has been hard at work in the driveway of his Edinburgh home with a cement mixer and a wheelbarrow.

As he applied a layer of cement to a section of the drive, he said he had been planning the job for some time. "I’m just making the drive good," Mr Connery said. "I’ve been meaning to do it for years, but haven’t had the time. People seem to think I drive around in the Mercedes like I’m some kind of superstar, but the car is 24 years old," he said.

He said he has no plans to sell the car and does not know what he will do with the car if he is banned from the road. Mr Connery was stopped by police on the A921 Fife coast road near Burntisland in June. At Dunfermline Sheriff Court he admitted driving while over the drink-drive limit.