Retrial date for 159mph policeman

Pc Mark Milton was driving a police car at the time

A police constable who reached 159mph in a force car on a motorway has been given a date for a retrial.

Pc Mark Milton had his acquittal for speeding and dangerous driving overturned by the High Court. He had earlier been cleared by a judge.

The police driver, 38, from Telford, Shropshire, was recorded by a patrol car's video camera on the M54 in 2003.

Pc Milton is due to appear at Ludlow Magistrates' Court on 21 August.

District Judge Bruce Morgan earlier cleared him after hearing he was "familiarising" himself with a new car.

After an appeal from the Crown Prosecution Service the High Court ruled the district judge erred in law when acquitting the West Mercia officer of dangerous driving in the police vehicle last May.