Drug abuse hampers Afghan police
Sixty per cent of police in Afghanistan's Helmand province use drugs, according to British estimates obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act.

Big rise in cannabis 'factories'
A big rise in the number of cannabis "factories" uncovered across Britain is revealed in figures obtained by BBC News.

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Police pay mobile phone companies
Police pay millions of taxpayers' money to phone companies to get data for investigations.

'Lost' foreign children revealed
Nearly 140 children from foreign countries cared for by East of England councils have then gone missing.

More minorities scanned for ID
A disproportionate number of people stopped and fingerprinted using a new mobile scanner are Asian or Black, figures reveal.

Foreign drivers avoid speed fines
Thousands of speeding foreign drivers escaped punishment because of a loophole in the law, a police force says.

Army drug use highest among Scots
Drug-taking levels among soldiers from Scottish battalions are the highest in the British Army.

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Read Tony Blair's letter about Sven-Goran Eriksson...and why it was available in Sweden but not in the UK.

Q and A: Freedom of Information
What is Freedom of Information and how does it actually work in practice?

Child abuse unit paying for data
The unit tackling child sex abuse in the UK has had to pay more than £170,000 to internet firms for information, the BBC learns.

Treasury releases ERM papers
The Treasury releases paperwork relating to Black Wednesday 1992 following an e-mail leak to the BBC.

Nursing home mysterious deaths
New evidence about serious failings at a care home where 27 out of 31 residents died in one year is uncovered.

Tracking Anti-Apartheid groups
Documents obtained by the BBC show the Metropolitan Police closely monitored the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

Thai murder worries played down
The Foreign Office played down concerns over attacks on travellers to Thailand for political reasons.

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NHS overspends on statins
NHS spending on prescribed statins in England could be slashed, saving millions of pounds.

Hospital car parks make millions
Hospitals in England are charging their patients up to £1.5m a year for car parking, the BBC has learnt.

FOI reveals three police jailed
Forty four officers in Kent and Sussex were arrested, and three jailed, over a 29-month period, figures show.

Sat-nav car thefts soar in London
The theft of satellite navigation devices from cars in London soared 154% in the last 12 months.

Weight worry sees child in care
Social services in Derby take a six-year-old boy into care listing obesity for the first time as one of the reasons.

Reports of youth bus crime soar
Reported youth crime on buses in London has soared since free bus travel for those under 16.

Hospitals cut agency nurse costs
The NHS in the East has saved millions of pounds through cutting the use of agency nurses, a survey says.

7 July ambulance 'radio failure'
There was a breakdown in ambulance communications on the day of the London bombings, BBC London learns.

Letters show nuclear safety worry
Documents obtained using the Freedom of Information Act show inspectors' concern about the safety of Oldbury Power Station.

Iraqi deaths survey 'was robust'
A senior official advised ministers that a survey saying 655,000 Iraqis died due to the war was "robust".

Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968.

'More sex offenders' go missing
The number of missing registered sex offenders may have increased in the past two years, according to data obtained by the BBC under freedom of information.

Knife amnesties 'have no effect'
A recent knife amnesty had no significant impact on reducing knife crime, according to a Police report.

Greenham case 'weaknesses'
The police managed to "paper over the evidential gaps" in trials of Greenham Common protesters in the 1980s.

NHS report 'criticisms deleted'
A National Audit Office report into the huge NHS IT programme had criticisms watered-down or deleted.

Climate change 'harms poor'
Natural disasters caused partly by UK carbon emissions will hurt the same people given overseas aid.

No penalty for ignoring booze ban
No-one has been thrown off the Tube for ignoring an alcohol ban, according to figures obtained by the BBC

Thieves 'targeting bull terriers'
Thieves may be targeting Staffordshire Bull Terriers and using them to guard stolen property.