user: Talks between the National Hockey League and the locked-out players' association are expected to resume Tuesday, according to a source close to the negotiations. The league had canceled regular season games through October 24 after unsuccessful negotiations over a collective bargaining agreement. The last time the NHL canceled preseason games was in 2004, which preceded a year-long lockout of the players by the owners. The regular season had been scheduled to begin Thursday.

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The league canceled games due to the lack of a collective bargaining agreement. The last time the NHL canceled preseason games was in 2004. The regular season had been scheduled to begin October 11.

By. Australian Associated Press. An former NSW cop who lied to the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) about a drug-fuelled weekend has cried in court as he described how his career has been destroyed. Former detective inspector Shane Diehm, 49, was hauled before the PIC in October 2011 to answer questions about drug use in the force. During that hearing, Diehm was quizzed about a weekend on Queensland's Gold Coast the year before, in which officers were allegedly secretly recorded consuming illicit drugs and hash cookies. Diehm initially lied to the commission about taking drugs but after a two-hour adjournment at the PIC, went back and admitted he had. Diehm has pleaded guilty to two counts of giving false information in relation to this. Disgraced former detective inspector Shane Diehm cried as he told the court how his drug use had impacted his family and career. Diehm was suspended from duty for testing positive for cocaine after a colleague's retirement party in August 2011. But he denies he lied to the PIC when he said he 'didn't remember' seeing other former and serving cops use drugs that weekend. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of providing false information to the PIC in relation to this. Diehm told Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday that he had 'no reason' to protect the other cops. 'I'm not naive enough to believe that I was the only one who (took drugs)... But if I had to guess who I saw or what the footage showed, I have no recollection,' he said. Diehm cried as he told the court how his drug use had impacted his family and career. More... 'Be the Rolls Royce not the Hyundai': The 'Pimp Manifesto' of violent sex trafficker who lured beautiful young Gold Coast girls into prostitution. No-one called Triple 0 for 12 hours as a Queensland mother-of-four lay dying. Australian jihadist being deported to Melbourne from the Phillippines will walk free as he has not broken Australian law. When he fronted the PIC, Diehm was suspended from duty for testing positive for cocaine after a colleague's retirement party in August 2011. Since then, Diehm, who served at Tweed Heads, said he had been 'absolutely hammered'by the north coast's media. 'I come from a really old-fashioned family where I am the oldest and sort of looked up to,' he said. Diehm told the court that during the two-hour adjournment at the PIC hearing, he had thought about his mother and family, and decided to go back tell the truth about his drug use. 'My life was on a spiral ... my son wouldn't talk to me,' he said. He said he knew that at the end of the PIC hearing, his career was over. 'I was suspended ... I had no future.' The hearing continues. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

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Former detective Shane Diehm says boys' trip to Gold Coast ruined his life. 49-year-old says he and fellow officers were secretly recorded taking drugs. Diehm claims he was made a pariah, with his son refusing to talk to him.

By. Martin Robinson and Becky Barrow. PUBLISHED:. 08:25 EST, 28 August 2013. |. UPDATED:. 18:31 EST, 28 August 2013. One in six families are ‘workless’, the fewest since records began in 1996, the Office for National Statistics has said. The ONS said 17.1 per cent of households have no adults aged 16 to 64 with a job, compared with 19.2 per cent when the Coalition came to power. Typically, those in workless houses are either looking for a job but unable to find one, or ‘inactive’, which covers anything from being a housewife to being too ill to work. The facts: The number of workless households has dropped to a new low since records began in 1996. Bad news: There are still 500,000 people in Britain who have never worked for a variety of reasons. Households which do not have any working age adults are excluded from the figures. The. fall is an endorsement of Work and Pensions Minister Iain Duncan. Smith’s welfare reforms, designed to make finding work more attractive. Mark Hoban, the Employment Minister, said helping people off benefits is ‘one of this Government’s top priorities’. He. said: ‘By reforming the welfare system to ensure that people are better. off in work than on benefits, and through schemes such as the Work. Programme and Youth Contract, we are giving people the support they need. to get a job.’ Since 2010, the number of workless households has dropped by around 427,000 to 3.5million. One in seven children, around 1.6million, live in a workless home The majority – 65 per cent – have a single parent. Picture of Britain: ONS figures reveal how many hosueholds are in work, partially in work or not in work at all in the UK. The graph shows the percentage of workless households by region in the three months to June 2013. The graph shows people in workless households by age group in the three months to June 2013. There. remain huge regional variations in worklessness, with 23 per cent of. households workless in the North East, compared with  13 per cent in the. South East and 14 per cent in the East. The ONS figures also show the number of households where no one has ever had a job is falling.There are 297,000 households ‘in which no adult has ever worked’, down 43,000 in a year. The ONS said the sharp fall in workless households over the last year, down by 182,000, was partly due to our ageing society. One-person. workless households with adults aged 50 to 64 saw the ‘greatest fall’,. but the number of such households with adults aged 65 and over grew. The report said this ‘is partly due to some workless households moving from the 16 to 64 age group to the 65 and over group’. So-called workless households stood at. 17.1 per cent in the three months to June, down from 17.9 per cent a. year ago and 19.2 cent in the same period in 2010. The number of households where no one has ever worked stands at 297,000, down by 43,000 over the past year.

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assistant: 4.9m Britons, aged 16 to 64, live in homes where all adults are unemployed. 17.1% of all households have at least one person aged 16-64 out of work. North East has highest percentage and South East the lowest in UK.