Nigella escapes drugs charges


British TV cook Nigella Lawson will not face legal action after admitting to a court that she had taken drugs, as a prosecution could deter future witnesses from being truthful, police say.

Lawson, 54, dubbed the Domestic Goddess after the title of one of her cookery books, made headlines globally when she told a court she had taken cocaine several times and smoked cannabis at the end of her 10-year marriage to art dealer Charles Saatchi.

The revelations came as her two former assistants, on trial for defrauding the high society couple of

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