panacea for grief.

Laura Dill, of Happy Valley, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to driving while impaired on November 2.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Kenrick James said Police were called to the scene of a single-vehicle accident just east of Elbow Beach.

An ambulance took Dill to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. While there, Sgt.

James said, Police noticed she was unsteady on her feet and smelled of alcohol.

Dill told Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis: "I had just found out that my husband had died.'' Mr. Francis fined her $400 and banned her from driving for a year.

Hiding cannabis in her underpants as she tried to clear Customs cost a 20-year-old American honeymooner $400 yesterday.

Suzanne C. Tiller pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to possessing 3.60 grams of cannabis.

Customs officers found a feminine napkin with plant material in her underpants in an Airport search.