Booze shame girls list revealed
JUST four girls in the Avon and Somerset area were fined for being drunk in a public place last year, new figures reveal.
A league table, published yesterday in the Sun newspaper, found only the City of London force area to have had fewer women aged under 21 fined.
Avon and Somerset's result is in stark contrast to Northumbria, Merseyside and Lancashire which each had more than 200 women fined for public drunkenness last year.
Gloucestershire had 13 women fined, while figures for Wiltshire police were not released.
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Colin Shevills, head of health campaign organisation Balance, warned that the alcohol timebomb among young people had been fuelled by booze being too cheap and demanded curbs on alcohol advertising.
He said: "Our region is drinking too much from an early age, driven by alcohol which is too affordable, too available and too heavily promoted. We need to call on Government for change."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Making sure young people understand about the harm alcohol can cause is crucial. We will be launching a new way of helping get this message across this year."
Nationally, drunken girls pay £2,500 in fines each week. A total of 119,200 under 18-year olds are being treated for alcohol abuse yearly.
Comments
by mrdogwalker
Tuesday, May 08 2012, 8:17PM
“"Alcohol timebomb?" After four convictions? Please be aware that Balance is a fake charity based in the North East of England and entirely funded by the public sector. In other words, the Government pays it to lobby the Government (using your money). The quote from its spokesman Colin Shevills refers to "our region". If you look at the original press release, (http://tinyurl.com/bm9kyof) it's clear he is referring to the North East of England. For the BEP to publish this as if it related to our region is lazy if not dishonest journalism.”
by Commenter42
Tuesday, May 08 2012, 12:04PM
“Terrible news that the (BE)P has to stoop so low as to report non-news stories originally published by the Sun.”
by Gavin
Tuesday, May 08 2012, 11:20AM
“So how much were they fined, and did they pay up?”
by Jduck
Tuesday, May 08 2012, 11:07AM
“What about men? SamSamson I think its more a reflection of it being socially accepted.”
by Tody123
Tuesday, May 08 2012, 11:04AM
“JUST four girls in the Avon and Somerset area were fined for being drunk in a public place last year, new figures reveal.
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thats because there are never any police on the streets”
by SamSamson
Tuesday, May 08 2012, 10:49AM
“Hmm, I saw more than 4 on friday night, isn't this just a reflection of the Police no longer caring about street crime?”