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The latest stories from the UK section of the BBC News web site.
Updated: 1 hour 35 min ago 'We used glass to bulk up cocaine'Dealers, former dealers and drug dealers reveal what sometimes goes into drugs to bulk them up.
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New face for Here Come The GirlsHeather Small is joining Lula and Anastacia in this year's Here Come The Girls tour, after a hugely successful run for the show last year.
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London disrupted by tube strikeThe London Underground network has been crippled by the first in a planned series of 24-hour strikes by workers.
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Hurricane pilot remembers BlitzRobert Hall chats to an ex-hurricane pilot who flew over London during the Blitz and a woman who's house was destroyed by German bombs.
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Fears over street light cut backsRoad safety campaigners have expressed concern over plans to turn off thousands of street lights, to save money.
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Manx on the moon?Astronomer Dr David Whitehouse and Tim Craine discuss why the Isle of Man is interested in space exploration.
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What to do if you get a tax letterThousands of people will find out if they have been undercharged or are overpaid by the taxman. Up to six million people have been paying the wrong amount and the treasury says it cannot afford to write off the money.
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Mandarin popular in UK SchoolsSome schools in the UK are teaching their pupils languages like Mandarin and Arabic rather than the more traditional French and Spanish.
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ME 'could be caused by a virus'Scientists in Scotland have found further evidence that ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, could be caused by a virus.
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Voluntary-funded Sikh school opensKhalsa Primary school is the first Sikh school in the UK to be backed and partly funded by a Gurdwara, or Sikh temple.
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'The Blitz brought everybody together'Alf Morris, who was 10 at the time of the Blitz, took BBC News back to the site of his former home in Bethnal Green to relive the events of the first night of Nazi Germany's assault on London.
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NI school evacuated in device alertAn eight-year-old schoolboy found himself at the centre of a major security alert when he walked into a classroom carrying a suspected pipe bomb.
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Rare Blitz footage discoveredPreviously unseen colour footage of London during the Blitz has been discovered, after lying in an attic for almost 70 years.
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Prince Charles begins green tourPrince Charles has started his week-long "green" rail tour of the UK in Glasgow, where he visited an initiative promoting cycling.
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New police appeal over MI6 deathPolice investigating the death of MI6 worker Gareth Williams have appealed for help in tracing two people seen entering his central London flat.
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MacKenzie and Bryant clashFormer Labour Minister Chris Bryant and former editor of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie have clashed on the issue of tabloid phone hacking, following allegations about practices at the News of the World newspaper.
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Rooney happy to play - CapelloEngland manager Fabio Capello says striker Wayne Rooney is in the right frame of mind to play against Switzerland on Tuesday despite allegations about his private life.
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Theresa May on hacking claimsHome Secretary Theresa May has told Parliament that it is up to the Metropolitan Police to decide on the best course of action, following fresh evidence about phone-hacking claims at the News of the World.
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Family's hope in Crete murder caseA British pathologist is investigating whether a woman, who Greek police suspect was murdered on holiday, may have died as a result of an earlier fall.
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Police appeal for witnesses in MI6 caseDetective Chief Inspector Jacqueline Sebire from Scotland Yard has said the police are trying to trace a Mediterranean couple in connection with the death of an MI6 officer.
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