- MORE than 100 bottles of alcohol have been seized from a group of youths in Foxton, Cambridgeshire, on Saturday 15th evening, following a complaint by a member of the public about a group of youths being rowdy in the village. Officers attending the incident discovered a large group of youths who were in possession of more than 100 bottles of alcohol, all of which was confiscated. The youths had got the alcohol from either parents or shops in the area. Pc Iain Perry said: “There is clearly a link between underage drinking and youth related anti-social behaviour and we will not tolerate it." EADT
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Shops selling alcohol are marking bottles with invisible ink in a bid to crack down on adults who buy booze for children.
The secret code allows police officers who catch underage drinkers to trace where the alcohol was bought and identify who purchased it using the shops' CCTV footage.
The scheme is being trialled in Cheshire, Lancs, and North Wales.
Lancashire Trading Standards officer Chris Storey said: "We estimate about 95 per cent of the kids around here get an adult to buy booze for them. They will stand around the corner and ask an older friend or relative to go and get a bottle of Strongbow or White Lightning cider for them." Sunday Mirror
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NO UNDERAGE drinkers in Cheddar have been caught by a new alcohol test strip- but police have warned they will still be carrying out random checks.
All police community support officers and police officers in the Cheddar area were issued with drinks testers last month, which they can put in drinks to see if they are alcoholic.
Teenagers drinking underage often try and conceal it in public by carrying alcohol in bottles with soft-drink labels on them. Weston and Somerset Mercury
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