• Cocaine warnings needed urgently

  By its very nature, cocaine use is difficult to quantify. However, a range of indicators points to a steep upward curve in its consumption across a range of ages and class groups. Increased availability, lower prices and greater affluence mean cocaine is fast becoming the recreational drug of choice for many younger people across the socio-economic divide. p
  

• Salmond's visit

  There is no logical reason why the political leaderships of devolved governments, even of widely differing persuasions, should not make common cause in pitching their case to central government. Nationalists and unionists can do so in Northern Ireland in the context of the devolved Assembly without threatening their respective constitutional positions, and, mutatis mutandis, so can the two devolved administrations in Holyrood and Belfast to mutual advantage. p
  

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