A Penryn university student left Truro Magistrates' Court a happy woman after a complicated hearing which resulted from an apparent mistake made after a police speed check.

Rachel Victoria Cox, 22, of Truro Lane, had been accused of failing to give information relating to the driver of a car stopped in a speed check in Lancashire.

She told the court she had been in the Bahamas at the time of the alleged offence and had never been to Chorley where it happened.

She had been sent a photograph of the car involved in the check, but could see that the lettering on the number plate was different from hers by one letter.

She said she had not received the request for information because it had not reached her.

After lengthy consultation in court as to her position in law, she decided to go to trial with a not guilty plea and the case was adjourned.

Then Alison May for the CPS, who had left the court, returned to say that it had now been agreed to withdraw the charge, and the case was dismissed.