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MP's test result just a headache

Thursday 16 September 1999 23:02 BST
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MP's test result just a headache

LABORATORY TESTS yesterday confirmed a headache pill rather than illegal drugs lay behind a positive test result for the former Home Office minister David Maclean. The Tory MP blamed a painkiller containing codeine for triggering the reading when he tested equipment at the conference of the Police Superintendents' Association.

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