- Sixteen prosecutions for selling booze to underage drinkers have been abandoned by council bosses following a landmark York case. Trading Standards chiefs decided not to pursue the owners of bars, pubs, hotels and restaurants after a district judge said they were not liable. The matter relates to a trading standards sting operation in December 2005 where venues owned by Mitchells & Butlers, the Restaurant Group and Jarvis Hotels served alcohol to an under-18. Officers dropped the action after District Judge Martin Walker said he did not believe premise licence holders were liable for the underage sale. Following Judge Walker's comments, more than a dozen other prosecutions were dropped against premise licence holders for the same offence. York Press
- Rather than the usual glass of sherry, elderly residents in sheltered accommodation in the Kirkham area will be having a slightly different kind of tipple with their mince pies this Christmas. Thanks to alcohol seizures across the rural Fylde, hampers full of the confiscated alcohol will be donated to make Christmas for the residents just that little bit more festive. The Citizen
- Britain's young adults spend more on alcohol than anyone else in Europe. Drinkers aged 18-24 splashed out £1,549 each on booze in 2005 compared to £910 by the French. Britain's young adults drank an average 15 litres of pure alcohol last year, the second-highest of the seven European countries included in a Datamonitor survey. Manchester Evening News
alcohol drinkers has been getting younger and younger each year and it is very disturbing, more underage alcohol drinkers had been emerging and there is nothing the government has done to fix it, parents cannot all the time watch for their kids and it should be dealt accordingly.
Posted by: RSA Training | Friday, March 25, 2011 at 06:22 PM