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The number of heroin and crack users in England is "plummeting", according to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.

Liverpool is to host the Labour Party conference in 2016 and 2018, it is announced.

Alleging that the cardinals either ignored or covered up cases of sexual abuse involving priests, the groups are pushing to keep those cardinals from being part of the deliberations. The cardinals have either not commented or denied wrongdoing.

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Seoul says it will strike back if North Korea makes good on a threat to attack U.S. and South Korean forces.

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The parents of a two-year-old girl who died after being hit by a car in Portlethen in Aberdeenshire describe her as their "shining light".

Anne O'Byrne, Cabinet Member for Housing at Liverpool City Council, told 5 live about the plan to sell homes for £1

Few of us own the music we listen or the movies we watch in exactly the same way we did a decade ago. And today if you buy a smartphone from a cellphone company, what you can legally do with it — how and where you can use it — may be proscribed even if that phone is fully bought and paid for.

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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi writes the song which will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has written the song which will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Rory McIlroy faces the media for the first time since walking off during last week's Honda Classic and admits he made a mistake.

Will RBS sell Coutts?

Two of the four men accused of killing missing financial adviser Lynda Spence have had their pleas of not guilty to murder accepted.

A winner of TV show The Apprentice in 2010 is suing Lord Sugar, claiming constructive dismissal.

An abattoir in Cheshire denies being linked to a criminal scam to smuggle horses from Ireland to the UK.

Family members of people who disappeared in Sri Lanka during the country's long civil war stage a demonstration in Colombo.

Scotland spent more cash than it raised last year, although debt levels were lower than the UK as a whole, official figures suggest.

One of Wales' biggest inquiries into alleged neglect and fraud at care homes looks likely to end without a trial after a doctor facing charges suffered brain damage in a burglary.

An outraged football fan is so disgusted with the referee's decision to send-off Nani in Tuesday's Champions League clash he calls 999.

US government offices are closed as the East Coast braces for a blizzard that dumped heavy snow on Midwestern states in recent days.

Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot are putting in a joint bid to become the UK City of Culture in 2017.