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London, Sep 23 : A teacher devised an unusual way to keep her kids from drug peddlers – she herself supplied them with cannabis.

The teacher, who is in her 40s, admitted supplying cannabis to her own children, to stop them buying it from street dealers.

The woman, a regular drug user, told police she wanted to prevent her two teens being exposed to criminals who might lure them into harder drugs and crime.

Officers found 116g of cannabis resin, worth around 200 pounds, at her home near Bury St Edmunds.

London, Sep 23 : Britain’s dumbest drink-driver was banned after he turned up at a police station in an inebriated state to answer his bail.

Philip Cavalier was being charged for an earlier offence of driving into a tree while drunk when cops whiffed alcohol on him.

The 56-year-old was ordered to undergo tests, which showed that Cavalier, who drove his van to the station, had 152mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath, i.e. five times over the limit

Magistrates in Eastbourne, Sussex, said the case was “beyond belief,” reports The Sun.

Washington, Sept 23 : Green plants and animals enjoy a relatively close evolutionary relationship than previously thought, a new study by an East California University biologist has revealed.

Plants, fungi and animals are all in a group called the eukaryotes – distinguished by their advanced cellular machinery. But some eukaryotes, most notably the fungi, have long been considered more closely related to animals than plants are.

Guwahati, Sept 23 : A two member team of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) visited Guwahati on Saturday to examine the venue and security arrangements made for the Pakistani team for the one-day-international match scheduled to be held in November this year.

The team comprised of PCB's technical officer Zakir Khan, who is also a former Test cricketer, and security expert Sohail Khan.

The duo, accompanied by Suru Nayak of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), also visited the hotel where Pakistani team will stay.

Karachi, Sep 23 : Pakistan’s Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani has accepted that the real opposition in the country is the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), and said that the members of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) are "paper parties."

Durrani said that the APDM has announced its resignation 25 times, let’s see what happens the 26th time.

"The APDM was formed to break the Opposition and the ARD. There are aggressive members and there are political member in the APDM and their differences are showing," he added.

London, Sept 23 : A woman, who placed bets on eight soccer matches, has scooped a booty of 226,834.36 pounds in the stake with William Hill on Champions League games.

Kathrin Rotmann placed the 1,000 pounds roll-up bet on matches played by Arsenal, Manchester United, Rangers, Slavia Prague, Barcelona, Roma, Fenerbahce and PSV.

All the eight teams won the matches with combined odds of 226-1.

However, this is not the first time the German born has won soccer bets.