The government is launching a campaign to highlight the forthcoming rise in the legal minimum age at which tobacco can be bought in England and Wales.

A Red Cross field hospital is being set up to cope with the binge drinking epidemic flooding accident and emergency wards.

Cocaine cut with cancerous drugs

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Cocaine users were warned the drug is increasingly being cut with a chemical which puts them at a 'very high risk of getting cancer'.

Tougher methods of teaching children about alcohol and tobacco are among measures needed to combat the rise in consumption, an advisory panel says.

Police have vowed to step up checks on stretch limousines after a startling number were found to contain traces of heroin, cocaine and MDMA.

Figures released by Sussex Police yesterday revealed 95 per cent of the luxury vehicles randomly checked in Brighton on Friday night contained traces of the drugs.

Keane frontman Tom Chaplin is being treated for drink and drug addiction, it emerged today.

The singer from Battle was initially said to be suffering from "exhaustion".

But in a message to fans on the band's website, Tom, 27, said: "I've been having to deal with an increasing problem with drink and drugs, and the time has come to get the professional help I need to sort myself out.