A mother who ploughed her Audi into a bus while massively over the drink drive limit had three kids in the car.

Amanda Pearce, 33, was driving along Tankerton Road in Whitstable when she went round a parked car and hit the bus coming the other way.

Magistrates in Canterbury heard that when police arrived at the scene they found Pearce to be "quite intoxicated" and with the three young children in the car.

A test later showed she had 119 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

Pearce, of Danesmead Terrace, Margate, admitted drink driving on October 25.

Hannah Uglow, defending, said Pearce had gone to Whitstable for a family lunch in a pub where she had drunk wine.

The solicitor said that Pearce had then decided to keep drinking and would get a lift home with her brother when he had finished working.

"It then became apparent her brother would not be coming back from London and she would not be able to stay at her sister-in-law's and she therefore made the stupid decision to drive to her mother's house on the other side of Whitstable," Miss Uglow said.

"She drove along the narrow Tankerton Road and this incident happened.

"My client has been extremely emotional about this and mortified by her conduct. This was a one-off which she very much regrets."

Magistrates gave Pearce a 12-month community order with a curfew between 7pm and 7am every day for three months.

She was banned from driving for two years and must pay £85 court costs.