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Jul 24 2008
LIVERPOOL’S binge drinking epidemic – widely recognised as the worst in the country – is twice as bad as feared, new hospital admission figures reveal....
Mar 28 2008
A THIRD of Merseyside children are binge drinking every week, and the average 15-16 year-old is putting away up to 67 bottles of wine, or 269 pints of beer, every year....
Mar 28 2008
THE latest figures on children’s alcohol consumption are about as worrying as they can get for parents. A detailed survey by the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, shows a third of Merseyside youngsters – around 57,000 teenagers in the North West – binge drinking on a weekly basis....
Mar 4 2008
A NORTH-WEST MP will today accuse some parents of encourag- ing teenagers to binge-drink, in the wake of the murder of Garry Newlove by drunken thugs....
Jan 14 2008
A LIVERPOOL-BASED liver specialist last night warned that the UK’s chronic organ donation crisis will get worse, with Britain’s culture of excess driving a burgeoning obesity epidemic....
Dec 17 2007
A CAMPAIGN to try and make people think about how much they are drinking will be up and running across Wirral this weekend....
Nov 8 2007
AN EXTRA £10m will be spent on addressing Liverpool’s binge drinking culture, health officials announced yesterday....
Sep 25 2007
AT A time when it has never been easier to consume copious amounts of alcohol – following the relaxation of licensing laws, its relative cheapness, and the expansion of outlets where it can be bought – it is perhaps not surprising that Liverpool, in common with many other cities, has a culture of excessive drinking....
