A MOTORIST who drank eight pints two hours before setting off has been banned for two years.
Robert Cutts, 42, of Hollins Lane, Mixenden, Halifax, admitted driving with excess alcohol at Moor End Road, Halifax on March 2.

Calderdale magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with supervision and £60 costs.

He was told he could reduce the ban by six months if he completes a drink-drive rehabilitation course by July 3 next year.

Andy Wills, prosecuting, said police found him in his car with the engine running and he told them what he had drunk. Cutts, who was not represented, said: “I am ashamed of what I have done.”

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Habs is an abbreviation of “les habitants,” the informal name given to the original settlers of New France, dating back to the 17th Century. So it’s a natural fit for the The Montreal Canadiens, established in 1909 and marketed as a French-Canadian hockey team.

Having said that, the nickname might have been the result of an error. According to NHL.com, the first man to refer to the team as “the Habs” was Tex Rickard, owner of Madison Square Garden, in 1924. Rickard apparently told a reporter that the “H” on the Canadiens’ sweaters was for “Habitants.” Not true. The distinctive C-wrapped-around-H logo stands for “Club de Hockey Canadien.”

Responding to this suspected increase, the U.S. Congress in 1998 passed a law that required NOAA to lead an Inter-Agency Task Force on Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia, and funded research into the origins, types, and possible human health effects of HABs.