Blue Peter stretch of track which, on 3 July 1938, saw the world speed record for steam locomotives of set by LNER A4 Locomotive no. 4468 "Mallard". In October 1998, Richard Bacon was sacked, following reports in "News of the World" that he had taken cocaine. This incident followed shortly after the show's 40th anniversary, when previous presenters returned for a special programme. Those returning included Leila Williams, Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves, Diane Louise Jordan, Anthea Turner, John Leslie, Tim Vincent, Yvette Fielding, Caron Keating, Mark Curry, Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Sarah Greene, Tina Heath, Simon Groome and Christopher Wenner.
Cocaine in the United States in the 1960s, undergoing a re-emergence of kind. in many discos such as Studio 54, even spawning open publications such as Adam Gottlieb's 1976 classic "If you enjoy The Pleasures of Cocaine this book may save your life" which appealed to the collective experience of prohibition to call for legalization: The drug also became particularly popular in rock music culture. Songs such as Eric Clapton's "Cocaine" was written by J. J. Cale. The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) reported that in the United States in 1999 that cocaine was used by 3.7 million people, or 1.7% of the