snort cocaine in his home -- opposite a nursery school.

Steven Caulder, who also admitted taking cocaine himself and possessing drug equipment, was fined $500 with an added penalty of $1,000 for being near the Little Lamb Nursery School.

Caulder, who lives on Dundonald Street, was also fined $1,000 for letting others use drugs in his home and $200 for the drug equipment.

Police entered Caulder's home around 12.30 a.m. on May 2 with a search warrant when they saw thick, white smoke coming out of his bedroom.

When officers entered the room, they saw a crowd of people and another man doing cocaine.

And during a search they found a brown paper twist with a white residue on it, a glass mirror with a white residue and a home-made pipe.

It was later discovered that all items had cocaine on them.

Caulder, who works at Chopsticks, told the court: "It was a big mistake.'' But Senior Magistrate Will Francis told Caulder he would be given an additional penalty because his home was across the street from Little Lamb Nursery school.

New laws have been introduced to penalise drug offenders caught within 300 yards of schools, nurseries, churches and sports clubs.

But duty counsel Renee Foggo, defending, said: "I think that new legislation was intended to deal with people selling drugs in public areas.'' Mr. Francis said: "I disagree. It is very troubling knowing there is a place where people are coming and going doing these sorts of things.

"I wouldn't want it in my neighbourhood.'' DRINK-DRIVER FELL ASLEEP, ENDED IN SEA CTS Drink-driver fell asleep, ended in sea A woman who nearly drove her car over a cliff and then fell into the sea told a court she was over the drink-drive limit.

Denise Simons, 25, was fined $400 and banned from driving for a year after she fell asleep at the wheel near Black Bay on Middle Road, Southampton, on April 18.

Simons, of Scenic Heights, Southampton, was driving east on Middle Road at around 1 a.m. when she dozed off and ploughed into a fence, causing a stretch of damage for 15-and-a-half metres.

Crown Counsel Leighton Rochester told the court that the black Daihatsu then went down a steep embankment before resting over a ledge above the sea.

Simons then fell out of the car into the water and swam over to some nearby rocks.

When she made it back to the roadside, a passing car took her to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital where she was treated for a cut on her face.

But when Police arrived at the hospital to question her about the incident, officers smelled alcohol on her breath and it was discovered she had 84 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

Simons pleaded guilty to driving while there was more than the legal limit of alcohol in her body but she pleaded not guilty to driving while impaired and the second charge was dismissed.