Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

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Pete Doherty has been released - again - on bail after being arrested -again - on suspicion of possessing drugs such as crack and cocaine. The singer was arrested by officers who spotted him driving his Jaguar erratically near his east London home.

Doherty, 27, was with two other people in the car. They were also arrested.

Doherty has recently received treatment for drug addiction.

He was fined £750 last month for assaulting Radio 1 Newsbeat reporter Trudi Barber.