The number of deaths linked to legal highs have risen from 10 in 2009 to 68 in 2012. The Guardian reports that experts who compiled the annual report of the national programme on substance abuse deaths based at London's St George's Hospital have claimed that those who experiment with legal highs are "dancing in a minefield".
Two-thirds of social sector tenants affected by the controversial bedroom tax were behind with rent after six months, a National Housing Federation survey reported by the BBC has suggested. The organisation, which represents housing associations, said the changes were "heaping misery and hardship on already struggling families, pushing them into arrears".
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