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Burly Englishman drinking pints, while throwing darts at a board in smoky venue to the cheers of a small but faithful crowd of fans. 

That was, for a long time, the popular image of professional darts.

But that stereotype has been turned on its head with the arrival of a 17 year old darts prodigy who's put a rocket under the sports popularity in the UK, the spiritual home of the game.

Just weeks after the Victorian state government scrapped plans for a second supervised injecting room in Melbourne, a new report has found drug deaths are on the rise in Australia.

In the nineties, the place to be in Melbourne was the Great Britain Hotel in Richmond for a parma and a beer as local blues and roots band Checkerboard Lounge played into the evening.

A new global study called the ‘ABC of Mobility’ has just been released and shows the world just can’t seem to kick the driving habit. 

The High Court has delivered a win for the Government today in a ruling which effectively allows for the indefinite detention of non-citizens where they refuse to cooperate with their own deportation.