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Madonna, drugs and helicopter-trained dogs: the dark, starry life of William Orbit | Dance music

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T This was a point in the early 00s when William Orbit was on the verge of becoming interstellar. He was one of the great pop architects of the Y2K era, the Mark Ronson or Jack Antonoff of his time. In 1998 he produced Madonna's Grammy-Sweeping Ray of Light with his magnetic Techno-Lite; Blur is 13 a year later; and made hits for some of the greatest films of the new millennium: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Next Best Thing and The Beach. The latter's lead track, Pure Shores, recorded by British pop group All Saints, was the second highest-grossing UK single of 2000. Echoes of its breathy acoustics and bleepy-bloopy electronica can still be heard in the charts; it was recently championed by Lorde, who said the song was an inspiration for this year's highly anticipated Solar Power album. Occasionally, Orbit, 65, will be at its local Whole Foods branch in Kensington, west London, and Pure Shores will be blowing through

Wearable drugs tag 'could be used in the UK' says Tory minister

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A label indicating whether people have used drugs could be used to fight crime in the future, a Tory minister said. The device, similar to the ankle-attached sobriety label currently used to prevent alcohol-related crime, would use regular sweat tests to detect whether someone has used illegal drugs. Home Secretary Kit Malthouse told MPs he recently met with the Korean authorities where the technology was being developed, adding that the government was interested in investing in the monitors. While MPs debated the government's new 10-year drug strategy, the minister also heard calls to fight drug users from central London, what he called the “drug epicenter” in the UK. The Conservative MP Dr. Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham) said, “Sobriety tags, portable devices that monitor alcohol use among offenders, were first tested in Lincolnshire and introduced due to their success in preventing 90% of people from consuming alcohol while wearin