[Margaret Pilkington]

Thanks Sue...was just going to post that link. I felt sure I had read something along those lines recently.

Trying to price alcohol out of reach will never work......you only have to look at cigarettes to see that.

There has to be a new perspective taken. The so called 'cafe culture' and extending opening hours for pubs hasn't worked in curbing binge drinking, but it has put some pubs out of business(the cost of lighting, heating and staffing of premises out-strips the profits made from selling beer).