A FILLING station champagne thief has been fined by magistrates.

Rebecca Kate Ponting, of Bridge Street, admitted to stealing six bottles of Champagne worth £213.72 from Buck Filling Station off the A303 near Andover with two others on Christmas Day.

The 35-year-old was fined £60 when she appeared before magistrates in Basingstoke recently.

Ponting was also ordered to pay a £30 victim surcharge and £20 Crown Prosecution costs.