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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/drinkdriver-gazza-avoids-jail-term.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Paul Gascoigne arrives at Newcastle Magistrates' Court" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-drinkdriver-gazza-avoids-jail-term.jpg" alt="Paul Gascoigne arrives at Newcastle Magistrates' Court"/></a></p>
<p>Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne has avoided an immediate jail term for driving while more than four times the legal alcohol limit.</p>
<p>The troubled 43-year-old ex-midfielder was given an eight-week sentence, suspended for a year, when he appeared at Newcastle Magistrates&#8217; Court on Thursday.</p>
<p>Following the hearing, his lawyer Stephen Andrews said Gazza was relieved and that it was a &#8220;good result&#8221;.</p>
<p>Gascoigne was arrested in the city after police spotted him driving an MG erratically. He was found to have 142mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath &#8211; the legal limit is 35mg &#8211; when he was tested in the early hours of October 8.</p>
<p>He admitted drink-driving at a hearing in October. On that occasion, District Judge Stephen Earl told him that 12 weeks in jail was a possibility given the circumstances.</p>
<p>Gascoigne was due to be sentenced last month but failed to appear as he had checked himself into a rehab clinic on the south coast.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Judge Earl said the seriousness of the offence crossed the custody threshold, but he passed a suspended sentence after hearing Gascoigne was responding well to treatment at the Providence Project clinic.</p>
<p>&#8220;You are not heavily convicted and you have nothing currently on your record of a similar nature,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>But the sentence does not signal the end of Gascoigne&#8217;s troubles.</p>
<p>A separate drink-drive charge, which he denies, will be heard next week at Northallerton Magistrates&#8217; Court.</p>
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