Welsh Health Minister Eluned Morgan has apologised after being handed a six-month driving ban for speeding.
She received the disqualification for accumulating too many points on her licence after going over the 30mph limit on a road in Wrexham last June.
"This is not something I am proud of and I apologise unreservedly," she said in a statement, having pleaded guilty to the charge.
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The Labour Senedd Member for Mid and West Wales was dealt with at Mold Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (March 16). Appointed health and social services minister in the Welsh Government last May, Morgan was previously minister for international relations and the Welsh language for two-and-a-half years.
She is also a member of the House of Lords, with the formal title Baroness Morgan, and was a member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2009.
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