SNP welcomes 'cross-party' minimum price support
17-Aug-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Indications of cross-party support for minimum pricing in Scotland have been welcomed by the Scottish National Party (SNP). Reports in the Glasgow...
27-Jul-2009 By Ewan Turney
Over 20,000 people joined a protest march against the planned closure of Diageo's Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock yesterday. The march...
'Eurocrats warn minimum pricing could be illegal'
19-Jul-2009
"Eurocrats have warned Scottish National Party plans to ban cut-price booze could be illegal. The European Commission says if a minimum price makes...
Scotland urged to carry on with minimum price plan
24-Jun-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
The World Health Organisation has urged Scotland to plough on with plans to introduce a minimum price for alcohol. Speaking at an Alcohol Summit in...
19-May-2009 By Ewan Turney
Visitor attractions such as distilleries and breweries will be exempt from regulations on how they can display alcohol in Scotland. The exemptions...
Scots minister committed to minimum pricing
01-May-2009 By Matt Eley Matt
Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill has slammed irresponsible supermarket promotions and vowed to continue with plans to introduce minimum...
Roy Beers: Hooray for the SNP - it's giving minimum pricing to Britain
06-Mar-2009
I hope it works, even if I don't think it will make a decisive difference to Scotland's massive overall drink problem, and that it works well enough...
02-Mar-2009 By Ewan Turney
The Scottish Government is to press ahead with plans for a minimum pricing to stop alcohol being sold for "pocket money prices". The Government today...
Scots plan to introduce minimum price confirmed
02-Mar-2009 By James Wilmore
The Scottish government plans to introduce a minimum price on alcohol, a ban on loss-leaders and cut-price promotions, it has been confirmed today....
'Violent "ladettes" fuelled by booze sessions'
01-Mar-2009
"Violent attacks by binge-drinking teenage girls have risen by nearly 300 per cent in seven years in a frightening wave of 'ladette' violence. The...
'Calls for drink-drive limit to be halved'
19-Dec-2008
Members of the Scottish Parliament have urged the Government to almost halve the drink-drive limit. They voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion...
Roy Beers: Some drink rules just aren't worth the hassle
13-Oct-2008
It's really the last thing the denizens of the hallowed halls of academe want to hear, while queuing up with cheap booze purchases at their local...
Scottish goverment rejects plans to raise legal drinking age
03-Oct-2008
The Scottish government has voted overwhelmingly to reject plans to raise the legal age from 18 to 21, for those buying alcohol from off-sales.But...
03-Oct-2008 By Ewan Turney
Plans to raise the off-trade purchase age to 21 in Scotland have suffered a hefty defeat in Parliament.
09-Sep-2008 By Ewan Turney
A pilot scheme in Scotland banning under-21s from purchasing alcohol in shops hailed a success but thousands sign petition against move.
03-Sep-2008 By John Harrington
Police will have more say over who can become a licensee under Scotland's new Licensing Act.
30-Jun-2008 By Ewan Turney
Lib Dem MSP Iain Smith says proposals will demonise every responsible drinker between ages of 18 and 21
Minimum pricing plan could have domino effect
20-May-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
If plans to introduce minimum pricing in the Scottish off-trade go ahead the rest of the country would soon follow suit, according to John Grogan MP....
Roy Beers: Scotching the myths about the great whisky duty scandal
14-Mar-2008
But it has logically and without exaggeration detailed exactly what the budget increase on Scotland's best-known export means for the Scotch whisky...
Scots off-trade included in 'polluter pays' scheme
13-Feb-2008 By James Wilmore
Scotland's supermarkets and off-licences - as well as pubs - will be forced to pay a charge for tackling alcohol-related issues, under new government...
Delay to setting of Scottish licensing fees
15-Jan-2008
A last-minute delay in the approval of new licence fees in Scotland has raised the hopes of licensees that they could be set a lower level than they...
15-Oct-2007
Action to ban cheap supermarket booze in Scotland faces a challenge from Whitehall. That is the news reported by Scotland on Sunday. Last month,...
Supermarkets face action in Scotland
06-Sep-2007
Irresponsible alcohol promotions by supermarkets and off-licences are to be banned by the Scottish government. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny...
SNP: pubs should pay fee for policing
06-Sep-2007 By Iain O'Neill iain.o'neill@william-reed.co.uk
Scotland's justice secretary has claimed pub and club owners should be made to pay for the policing of antisocial behaviour caused by alcohol. The...
30-Aug-2007
Trade angered at SNP's u-turn on paying to police anti-social behaviour
MyShout
16-Aug-2007
The cut-price alcohol sold by supermarkets is on the current political agenda, observes John Grogan MP What do Prime Minister Gordon Brown and...
SNP to take action against promotions
06-Jun-2007
Scotland's new Scottish National Party government aims to take early action to curb deep discounted off trade drink promotions.Cabinet Secretary for...
SNP wants to ban off-trade promotions
12-Mar-2007
The Scottish National Party (SNP) will ban off-trade deep discounting drink promotions north of the border if it wins power in Scotland's May...
Scottish minister calls for clampdown on supermarket discounting
25-Jan-2006
Scottish campaigners and a Dundee MSP are calling on the Scottish Executive to examine supermarkets and off-licences which sell alcohol at discount...
