Aristocrat claims driving ban will cause ‘exceptional hardship’

The son of aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill has been banned from the road for speeding after magistrates ignored his claim that losing his licence would cause him ‘exceptional hardship.’ Company director Rupert Spencer-Churchill, 50, was clocked over the speed limit three times in his blue Range Rover on the A40 in Greenford, west London last August. Prosecutor Kari Williamson said on 14 August he was caught doing 47mph when the speed limit was 40mph. Two days later he was doing…