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Amon Brown, 46, of Olive Land, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to assaulting a 27-year-old man on May 5.

Crown Counsel Charmaine Outerbridge Smith said the complainant's grandmother's car was parked in Brown's drive way at around 7.15 p.m.

As the two were walking to the car, Brown came toward them and began shouting at the grandmother about where the car was parked.

The complainant told him to stop and Brown waved a claw hammer at him.

Brown then put the complainant in a head lock and bit his hand causing a wound which required four sutures.

Yesterday defence lawyer Tyrone Chin said Brown had asked the pair not to park the car in the drive way on a previous occasion.

And he said that there was a "degree of provocation''.

"The complainant had to be held back by the grandmother because he was trying to attack Brown,'' Chin said. "That's when the headlock occurred.'' TCD DEADLINE LOOMS TRA GVT TCD deadline looms The Transport Control Department sent out a renewal reminder for light truck permit-holders.

TCD is reminding all permit-holders that their vehicles will not be licensed for 1999 unless the permit has been reviewed and approved.

Permit reviews will be taking place during the next three months. September to November permit holders are urged to arrange a meeting with a TCD traffic officer to verify that the business requiring light truck use still exists.

The receipt for the current Government payroll tax return will be required for this meeting.

TWO ARRESTED ON BUS CRM Two arrested on bus A couple were arrested by the Police on Thursday evening after allegedly causing a disturbance on a bus and assaulting the officers who responded.

The incident occurred at around 6.45 p.m. on Kindley Field Road in St.

George's when an unruly passenger refused to leave the bus at the driver's request.

Police were called and when they arrived the 24-year-old man became abusive toward them and was arrested. A violent struggle took place during which time a Police officer sustained a hand injury which required hospital treatment.

An 18-year-old St. George's woman who was travelling with the man was also arrested after she assaulted a Police officer. The pair are expected to appear in court in due course.

SALTUS AT TOP OF CLASS ED Saltus at top of class Saltus Grammar School students have outperformed their UK counterparts by an impressive 20 percent margin on the annual British General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations, the school's headmaster said.

Trevor Rowell said 81.3 percent of Saltus candidates taking the tests this summer achieved A to C grades compared to the UK average of 62.7 percent; 16.8 percent of Saltus candidates achieved one or more A grades compared with only 10.5 percent of students in the UK; and 87.9 percent of Saltus students earned five or more A to C grades compared with the 1997 average of 46 percent in the UK.

"These young people deserve our warmest praise and congratulations for academic excellence,'' said the headmaster.

JET SKI RIDER IN CRASH RAO RES Jet ski rider in crash Harbour Radio experts also arranged for a 23-foot motorboat, the Stone Free to be towed ashore at around 10 p.m. after she ran out of petrol off Hog Fish beacon at Spanish Point.

And Marine Police launched an inquiry after a woman visitor escaped from a jet ski crash uninjured in Castle Harbour.

Her jet ski, rented from Marriott's Castle Harbour Resort, collided with a channel marker at around 1.20 p.m.

Earlier in the day, Harbour Radio received an alarm signal from the Bermuda-registered Izanami motor yacht in St. Tropez, but her emergency beacon had been set off accidentally at 5 a.m.