SPL calls for booze ban 'rethink'
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The SPL calls on ministers to consider a review of the 27-year ban on alcohol in Scottish football grounds.
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Police in Aberdeen have called for a ban on any more city centre pubs or clubs in an effort to curb violence. Officers have warned that alcohol-related crime is already stretching their resources to the limit.
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Scotland's pubs and clubs are to take legal advice to see if they can challenge plans to ban smoking in public places.
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Animal rights campaigners urged lawmakers in the southern California city of San Diego to introduce a ban on foie gras, in the latest US challenge to the beloved delicacy of gourmands.
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Footage of drink-fuelled attacks is being used to try to reduce pub licences, BBC Scotland learns.
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Leaders of the British Medical Association Scotland call for better labelling on alcohol.
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New 24-hour drinking may have trebled alcohol-related admissions to inner city A&E departments, a study claims.
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Top policeman Sir John Stevens urges the government to think again on extended drinking times.
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Updated methods for calculating alcohol consumption classify many more people as drinking too much.
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Health officials and police are calling for tighter controls on liquor sales to combat binge drinking by a growing number of Finnish youths after a huge cut in taxes has made alcohol more affordable.
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A senior officer's suggestion of mitigating circumstances for drink driving are described as "absolutely obscene".
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The owner of the All Bar One, Harvester  and O'Neills pub chains, Mitchells & Butlers, says government plans to ban smoking in many pubs could backfire.
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"We cannot have a reincarnation of the old 'sus' laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties."  British police could get powers to stop and question anyone in the UK under proposed tough new anti-terror laws. via Boston Today
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Alcohol should carry warning labels telling pregnant women not to drink to prevent the potentially damaging effects of âladetteâ bingeing on unborn babies, it was argued today.
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Liquor makers in China are demanding that a city regulation barring public servants and Communist Party officials from the Chinese version of a three martini lunch be revoked, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Systems to stop cars starting if the driver is drunk get the backing of MPs who are examining future transport.
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'Don't drink and drive' message not getting through The government is considering cutting the UK's drink-drive limit under "mounting pressure...from road safety groups and also the British Medical Association", the Telegraph reports.â¦