REVELLER Michael Costello, aged 30, of Renshaw Drive, Bury, spent the first hours of 2004 in a police cell after shouting abuse at nightclub doormen in Bury on New Year's Eve.

Magistrates fined him £80 with £68 costs for being drunk and disorderly.

Costello said he had tried to intervene in an argument to help a friend but had got involved himself. He apologised to the court for using their time.

The magistrates fined him £80 and ordered him to pay £68 court costs.