Twins tip-off police about mother's drink-driving

LONDON (AFP) — A judge on Wednesday praised twins who reported their mother to police for drink-driving when she got into her car after drinking a bottle of wine.

Emma and Helen Cox, 21, contacted police when their 43-year-old mother Tracey Cox drove the car a short distance outside their home in Sheffield, earlier this year.

Officers who attended the incident found that Cox was two-and-a-half times over the legal drink-drive limit. She said she could not remember moving the car.

Three weeks later, police stopped her again after being tipped off that she was driving to pick up her eight-year-old daughter from school after drinking. She refused ...