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By The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) – Pete Doherty, the rock musician boyfriend of Kate Moss, was detained by British police in a drug sweep, his spokesman said Sunday.

“I know that he has been held overnight by police in Shrewsbury” in central England, said spokesman Tony Linkin, who didn’t know whether Doherty had been arrested or charged.

A West Mercia Police spokesman refused to confirm whether the Babyshambles frontman was detained in a drug raid after the band’s concert at Shrewsbury Music Hall late Saturday.

Doherty, 26, has reportedly been in and out of drugs rehab.

British newspapers reported last week that Moss checked into the Meadows rehab clinic outside Phoenix. Pictures of Moss, 31, apparently snorting cocaine in a London music studio were published in the Daily Mirror tabloid last month. She has since lost modeling contracts with H&M, Burberry and Chanel.

In a statement, the model said she is addressing her problems and takes “full responsibility” for her actions.

Babyshambles canceled Sunday’s sold-out show at the University of East Anglia.

“I’ve been told that two of the band members aren’t available to play tonight,” said Nick Rayns, entertainment manager for the UEA Students Union.

‘Magic is back,’ Horn says

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Roy Horn says “the magic is back.”

But two years after he was nearly killed by a tiger on stage, the magic is about walking short distances, not making elephants disappear.

“I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain,” Horn, of the famed duo “Siegfried & Roy,” told the Las Vegas Sun. “I’m trying to live with this.”

Monday is the second anniversary of the attack; It’s also his 61st birthday.

Horn can now walk unaided for short distances, and the grip of his right hand is noticeably firm. But signs of the attack remain: A thin white scar cuts across the right side of his neck, his left side is partially paralyzed and his walk is a slow shuffle.

His goal is to walk without assistance.

“It will be soon,” he said. “I will surprise everybody when I do it. I like surprises.”

Horn said he still finds solace in his animals and visits them at least once a week – including Montecore, the white tiger that mauled him during a performance at The Mirage.

Recalling the night he nearly died, Horn said it was not his time.

“They were not ready for me,” he said. “They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.”

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