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REM guitarist air-rage trial collapses

Due to legal technicalities the trial of REM guitarist Peter Buck for an alleged air-rage episode collapsed yesterday. A retrial date will be set.

Buck was charged with assaulting British Airways' staff, being drunk on board an aircraft and causing criminal damage during a flight from Seattle to Heathrow on April 21.

He was granted conditional bail of £20,000.

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