Teen from Gloucester told its an alarm clock or jail

MAGISTRATES told a 16-year-old burglar to get an alarm clock – or face jail.The Gloucester boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Cheltenham Magistrates' Court because he skipped four appointments with youth offending workers and would not engage with them when he did turn up.He had been made the subject of a training and detention order in October last year for committing two burglaries.Bench chairman David McDonald told the boy, who has been lying in bed until as...