Under-Age Drinkers

Exclusive: JDW uses 'spotters' for ID patrols

10-Feb-2011 By The PMA Team

JD Wetherspoon has started to employ "spotters" to identify under-age drinkers that have slipped through the net at its pubs. They are being...

'Booze pain for bosses'

09-Sep-2010

Brits suffering from hangovers are taking 13 million sick days off work every year. One in four workers took at least one "sickie" in the last 12...

'Professional women are the new big drinkers'

29-Jan-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

Professional and managerial women are downing almost twice as much alcohol as the lower paid, according to an official survey. They are drinking an...

Fake ID youths locked in pub

12-Oct-2006 By Tony Halstead

A licensee locked more than 20 teenagers in the downstairs bar of his pub and telephoned police after suspecting the youngsters were carrying fake ID...

Under-age but above law

23-Sep-2004

The news about under-age drinkers caught in the national sting operations made grim reading for the pub trade. When half of the pubs targeted were...

Crime slashed in blitz on under-age drinkers

22-Jan-2004

by Claire Hu A wristband scheme aimed at combating under-age drinking in pubs and clubs has seen a 50% reduction in town-centre disorder. The...