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Britain:

More secret anti-terror government files found on train:

The papers were found on the same day that another batch of secret papers relating to intelligence assessments of Iraq and al-Qaida were handed to the BBC after being left by a senior official on a train.

Government sources last night played down suggestions the two incidents were linked.

Guardian
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David Hockney:

He is also outraged by the severe penalties for marijuana use. Marijuana, he said in a letter to The Spectator, "is a harmless and pleasant plant that, like a couple of cocktails, makes you feel relaxed and, unlike them, quiet."

He added: "Why is the stuff still illegal? I assume it's the power of the alcohol lobby being behind most things. Alcohol has damaged and killed friends of mine, but I've never known anyone harmed by the weed, whose relaxing pleasure I have enjoyed for 40 years."

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We've stopped this train to prevent it delivering 1,000 tonnes of coal to be burnt at Drax and then released into the atmosphere.