Legal Drinking Age

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JDW boss: Under-18s drinking in pubs could help to stop binge drinking

08-Nov-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

JDW boss Tim Martin has said 16 and 17-year-olds being able to legally drink in pubs could help prevent binge drinking.

Drinking age 'should be raised to 24'

06-Jun-2011 By Adam Pescod

A leading biologist has argued that the legal drinking age in the UK should be raised to 24 after linking alcohol consumption to poor brain...

John Porter: Small beer

30-Jan-2009

This would be the same government that is incapable of teaching a large percentage of the population how to read and write, can't work out that if...

Lowering the limit

18-Oct-2007

Phil Dixon wonders whether it's time the legal drinking age was brought down to encourage tippling teenagers off the streets and into pubs After the...

Call for drinking age to be raised to 21

15-Aug-2007 By James Wilmore

A police chief has called for the legal drinking age to be raised to 21 to address the "scourge of anti-social behaviour" that blights many areas....

Trade blasts calls to raise drinking age

19-Apr-2007 By Tony Halstead THals22851@aol.com

Calls for the legal drinking age to be raised from 18 to 21 years have been blasted as "ridiculous" and "stupid" by industry leaders. They said any...