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Yes customers will buy products in branded glasses, provided the branding is integral to the glass, not a transfer/paint job. It's so they can nick them. Every student house in the land has them. Coke glasses etc. So yes, you would see an increase in sales but not a switch to make the branded glass product the preferred choice. Once you've got the set number you require it back to your regular drink probably based on price.

Just checked the calendar and it's not April 1st... Inspector F**kWit is living on a different planet. I have a shiny new National Identity Card and I'm not a Foreign National, in the North West, or 18-24 in London but I've got one and nobody accepts it as ID (including my Bank), but it is a valid European Passport. If I had to show it to get served in licenced premises I'd recommend the staff went to Specsavers. I would not under any circumstances let anyone other than the Police or Passport Control scan it, due to the information held on it. If it was a legal requirement to show id to enter licenced premises (more chance of plaiting fog) they could look at it, but most people have never seen an ID card so that's no use. If any licenced premises insisted on scanning it they would lose me as a customer permanently and I would publicise it to the wider world. Then I would go to the nearest pub/restaurant without a scanner, which no doubt would be advertising the fact. 'Welcome No Scans Here!' alongside 'Watch Sky Sports/EPSN Here'. It would need every licensed premise in Durhamt to have a scanner and then we can all sit back and watch them go out of business whilst reading the Mr Angry letters in the papers.

For me it was 1972 when I was 14 and taken to my local and introduced to the then landlord by both my uncles. I was told that I could only come in on my own when I was 16. Having served my 'apprenticeship' it became my local for years. Now I can only take my children to some pubs e.g. JD Wetherspoons, if we all have a main meal. Ironically the pub I first went to at 14 has been bought by Wetherspoons, the Childwall Fiveways. PS With regard to the Health Police, Government Imperial policy, Political Correctness, why can't anyone say "any tom, ****, and harry" in this forum?

Interesting viewpoint Mr Kheng but I'm sorry it just doesn't wash. Irresponsible supermarkets allowing people to drink unsupervised. What do you suggest? A drinking at home ban? 40p a unit set as the price everywhere? Where is everywhere? Set by who? Oldham Borough Council admitted that setting a minimum price for alcohol is illegal. Pre-loading a problem is it? It's called customers voting with the feet and their wallets, why spend £40 on a night out when it can be done for a lot less. And the audacity of the man to recommend that supermarkets are irresponsible but it might be useful to those free of tie to check the website for any half decent offers. Irresponsible might just be a pub having a free car park. I'm sure some local councillor will take that issue up. Take your complaints to the pub companies. Oh and I'll think you'll find that the minimum age for alcohol consumption in the UK is 5 years (subject to medical considerations)

As a customer of Wetherspoons, an ex employee of Wetherspoons, and still a bar man elsewhere, I can understand the frustration felt by groups where one or more members of the group are age checked and subsequently refused service. The all too frequent problem that arises is that if the group stays then other members of the group purchase alcohol for the one(s)refused. To say that they were not ID checked elsewhere just highlights the failings of the bar staff at the previous premises they visited. Given the repercussions for the staff and licensee, I can't blame them for playing it safe. If having refused to serve someone and the customer is subsequently identified as consuming alcohol under age, the purchaser was fined at the level reserved for staff, we might see a sea change in attitudes.