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Or should the opening times be cut back to the old days.

Darklord

Both

What would be the point of either? booze is readily available to be bought 24/7 in Supermarkets. those over the age of 18 can buy it for those under the age of 18 and who is to know who consumes it and what is the age of those individuals?

Funny thing really cos you can get married at 16

What it needs there is the government to stop the supermarkets selling cheap booze.
Until they get a backbone the problem of underage drinking will go on.
Put the prices in line with the pubs and give them a chance to survive

Darklord

The advertising ban is a very good idea.

Neither - I think it's all cool how it is

I am watching Night Cops at the moment and I would disagree. However you opinion is very welcome

Hi Ice

indeed so , but we have to be seen to be tackilg this anti-social attitude. At night on the weekends your average town centre is a no go area. That should not be the case

Darklord

Programmes like Night Cops don't give a balanced representation. I've been out in Brighton, Birmingham, Reading and London at night on weekends in the last few months and none of them were no go areas.

Its a good point, however how much of a police prescence was there?.

Darklord

Raised to 21, because in America they maybe start drinking at 18/19 rather than at 12/13/14.

Another thing is adjusting the genral populations attitude to alcohol, as when I have been to America, you order more than a couple of drinks you get looked at like your a serious drunk.

In America they are also very strict on ID, if you get caught passing a drink to someone without ID even if they are over age they will just stop serving the whole group.

I also think they tend to prosecute underage drunks or at least lock them up till the parents come and collect them much more often then in the UK, although that may just be a myth created by the film industry, but whenever a film shows police entering an party were their is alcohol all those who are underage run and those underage run too as its an offence to provide a 'minor' with acohol.

In our town, it is not the under 21's who cause the problems with drinking it's the over 40's

I don't recall seeing any police except in Brighton where there are always a lot around the streets by the pier. You see the odd scuffle here and there but these are mostly in the spill out from clubs and are usually controlled by bouncers. And fights aren't new:)

In my local town if the kicked out the underage drinkers the pubs would shut through lack of businss

How old were people before they started drinking in pubs and clubs? I was 16.

I recall my brother being nicked by the local copper for drinking under age: he was 16 at the time and it was 1957 - he got fined £1.00.

It didnt stop him from drinking again though - he just made sure that the copper was not in the area at the time!

Fights are indeed not new. However large cities will always have alarge police outlay, due to the volume of people. They would be better off helping the ordinary public rather than breaking drunken anti-social behaviour.

I disagree that drunken behaviour is anti-social. On the contrary, a lot of it is very sociable. It isn't fair to judge the majority on the minority of those who cause trouble

i was 15 when i first started nightclubbing
and have never ever been in trouble with the police drunk or without drink

i think its up tot he parents to educatet he children on what is resonable and what isnt