THE brother of Girls Aloud star Cheryl Tweedy has vowed to change his ways for the sake of his sister's music career.

Unemployed Andrew Tweedy, 22, has been exposed as a glue-sniffing thug, bringing trouble for his 19-year-old sister.

Yesterday, he announ-ced he had given up solvents and turned his life around to save his sister's chart-topping pop career.

Since last September, Tweedy, one of five children, has been hauled before the court for glue sniffing, fighting and tampering with a car.

He turned up at Newcastle Magistrates' Court yesterday for what he hoped was his last appearance, for sentence on his "stupid behaviour".

After the hearing, Tweedy said: "I have given up glue and I'm trying to turn my life around.

"I'm doing it for Cheryl because I don't want anything bad to happen to her after all the bad press. I've been stupid and regret everything I've done."

Magistrates heard how Tweedy had been caught twice on the same day with his head in a carrier bag containing solvent. He screamed abuse in the street.

The hearing came just weeks after Tweedy and his sister, Gillian, 23, were bound over to keep the peace after a drunken street brawl.

Magistrates bound the pair over for 12 months with a penalty of £100 each to be paid if they got into any further trouble.

Cheryl, 19, was arrested for punching a toilet attendant in a Surrey nightclub and was also thrown out of the Baja Beachclub in Newcastle after a water pistol fight with Newcastle United players.

Tweedy, of Heaton, Newcastle, pleaded guilty to three charges of harrassment and one of being drunk and disorderly and interfering with a motor vehicle.

Magistrates sentenced him to 18 months community rehabilitation