The singer, 36, who had a long battle with drink, drugs and depression, told the Radio Times that it was ”a shame” that the drug ”doesn’t mix well with me”. Referring to the tendency to binge-eat after smoking marijuana, Williams, whose song Morning Sun is this year’s official charity track for Sport Relief, said: ”Did you see me last year? Have a look at last year. Yep. Year of the Munchie 2009. ” ... Jump to full article >>

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The Bank of England has announced that £20 notes with the image of the beloved English composer will not be legal tender after June 30 this year. Sir Edward, whose melodies have come to capture a certain type of Englishness, is to be pulped a mere 11 years after he had the honour of gracing the £20 note. William Shakespeare managed 23 years in our wallets before he was discontinued from the £20 note. After June 30 shops will no longer have to ... Jump to full article >>

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A North Korea desperate for foreign exchange has been generating hard currency by re-exporting British cigarettes, despite renewed efforts by the international community to apply tougher sanctions on the impoverished state. North Korean and other Asian trading entities started re-exporting State Express 555 cigarettes, manufactured by British American Tobacco, in February last year, just months before North Korea’s second nuclear test in fo ... Jump to full article >>

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City officials could know this week whether Appleton will receive $3 million in federal stimulus money to fight a new form of tobacco product seen as threatening children with nicotine addiction. Accepting the grant would mean creating four full-time jobs, including a police officer and a school health and tobacco educator, and filling several part-time positions. Wage and benefit costs would total nearly $1 million, including $52,000 for the cur ... Jump to full article >>

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Smoke and ash trays in Cabell County bars and gambling parlors will soon become a thing of the past. Cabell Circuit Judge Jane Hustead lifted a week-old temporary injunction on a new countywide indoor smoking regulation Thursday, which allows the Cabell-Huntington Health Department to enforce it as soon as the judge enters her order. The new regulation strengthens a 2001 law that prohibited smoking in all of the county’s restaurants. Fifty- ... Jump to full article >>

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I’m lying in hospital, shaking with fear. There are no familiar faces, only doctors and midwives hovering above me, their mouths moving silently. The contractions keep coming, and I’m horribly confused. How can I be in labour when I would never have allowed myself to get pregnant? Welcome to my subconscious, which regularly reminds me of my terror of childbirth. The nightmares started in my teens, when I decided I could never cope wit ... Jump to full article >>

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