Are sweets the new drugs???

Hey, maybe I'll set up shop outside schools and sell Caramilk bars...

Pupils at a leading grammar school could be suspended for secretly selling sweets in the playground.

The warning comes after a pupil-run sweet 'racket' was foiled by staff at St Anselm's College in Birkenhead, Merseyside.

A number of entrepreneurial children were found to be cashing in on the government ban on junk food at schools, by selling sweets and fizzy drinks to fellow classmates.

Rather than encourage their business minds, the school has clamped down on the 'outbreak of sweet selling' in the playground and on the bus.

Headteacher Simon Duggan fears the practice encourages fights and theft and says it will not be tolerated.

In a strongly-worded letter to parents at the 450-pupil school, Mr Duggan warned those caught will be excluded from school and 'their ill-gotten gains' confiscated.

He added: 'Sweets are not allowed to be sold in schools under food regulations and we will not let any student subvert these necessary rules.