'Minimum price' demand on alcohol'

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The availability of cheap alcohol has led to calls for minimum prices in Wales to change the drinking culture. Brian Gibbons, Wales' social affairs...

The availability of cheap alcohol has led to calls for minimum prices in Wales to change the drinking culture. Brian Gibbons, Wales' social affairs minister, says he wants to see alcohol strength taken into account in pricing - BBC

Lord Tebbit has been forced to apologise to a pub landlord after incorrectly accusing customers of leaving empty wine bottles outside his property. The veteran Tory
found empty wine bottles outside his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, last month, and marched across the road and lined them up on the pub's windowsill. But the peer was challenged by the pub's manager, 28-year-old Joel Shepherd, who said the pub did not sell the bottles - Daily Mail

Christie & Co reports that the pubs and licensed trade market has turned the corner with the number of deals on the rise. This is confirmed by Ryden, which says that the market has become more active - The Scotsman

The smoking ban in the UK did not lead to children being exposed to more smoking at home, a study has concluded. One of the main criticisms of the ban in public places was that it could prompt people to swap pubs for drinking at home where they could smoke. But a Cardiff University study of 3,500 primary school children found hardly any change in smoking exposure - BBC

People in flood-hit Cumbria were braced for further misery with up to 3.9in (100mm) of rain predicted to fall on parts of the county's already saturated ground today. The forecast came 24 hours after traders and retailers in Cockermouth battled through the grime to return to their devastated businesses and residents went back to their ruined homes - Daily Mail

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