Daredevil van driver jailed for 70mph police chase

  A banned motorist who drove a stolen van the wrong way down a dual-carriageway and tried to ram three police cars during an ‘appalling’ high-speed chase was jailed for 14 months. Peter Eaglestone, 54, was behind the wheel of a the white Mercedes Sprinter van when its tracker alerted police of its location at a service station near Chigwell, Essex. The van had been stolen from Coppetts Road, Muswell Hill, north London on the evening of 9 January this…