AN APPLICATION to put down two bulldogs and ban their Lampeter owner from owning dogs has been granted by magistrates.

Dyfed-Powys Police had a civil order banning Gwenfair Cardi Benjamin, of 3 Pleasant Hill, North Road, approved by Aberystwyth magistrates on 8 June.

The order also approved two British Bulldogs - Tia and Abi - to be destroyed.

Benjamin, 52, was disqualified from keeping dogs for five years and ordered to pay £450 costs.