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Footballer George Best and comedian Ronnie Barker are among the big names to be added to the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
A look at the turbulent career of cult musician John Martyn, who has been appointed OBE in the New Year Honours.
Easy-going Bhutanese have more in common with the West on divorce than the rest of the region, finds Charles Haviland.
A woman is given a 10-year extended prison sentence after stabbing her lover to death in a drunken row.
A boy who began drinking while still at primary school spirals into alcoholism which doctors warn will kill him.
Two new clinics are opened on Skye to deal with the numbers of people seeking alcohol detoxification.
Six members of an endangered tribe die in India's Andamans islands after mistaking a chemical that washed ashore for alcohol.
A French cardiologist has triggered an impassioned debate in the medical world over his claim to have discovered a cure for alcoholism.
Further evidence has emerged that King Edward VIII was seeing a mystic during the abdication crisis, prompting the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene.
A Mansfield couple who took their four-month-old son on a drinking binge may face a jail term.
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A German woman is jailed for more than four years for killing two of her babies and keeping them in a freezer.
A drama about how alcoholism destroyed the life and career of football legend George Best is to be shown on BBC Two.
India thrash England by six wickets in the fifth one-day international at Cuttack.
Manic Street Preacher Richey Edwards is declared as presumed dead, a spokeswoman for the band confirms.
A former Metropolitan Police officer who misused an official credit card to help his homeless daughter is spared jail.
A ban on cut-price alcohol could be introduced next year under plans to curb alcohol abuse among young people.
Kerry Katona says she is an alcoholic, but can control her addiction enough that she can drink. How does this square with the abstinence mantra of many recovery programmes?
Michael Chopra says Cardiff boss Dave Jones' support was a big factor in his loan move and insists he is over his off-field problems.
From Beijing to Cannes... El Diego has been a busy football icon since he was last in the limelight
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