In a bar in the heart of St Petersburg, widescreen TVs show a match between local football team Zenit and Bayern Munich, two giants of European football - but this is not the only thing these two cities have in common.
PEOPLE under the age of 21 could be prevented from buying alcohol from many off-sales, corner shops and supermarkets under new powers to be introduced across Scotland later this year.
THE RISE of mighty merlots, stonking sauvignons and potent pinots has been a defining feature of our recent love affair with wine. And as the taste has got ever bigger so too has the alcohol.
(Reuters Life!) - Teens who exercise and play team sports are less likely to be smokers or use marijuana and other drugs than their peers, but they do drink more alcohol, a study said.
The rise of mighty merlots, stonking sauvignons and potent pinots has been a defining feature of our recent love affair with wine. And as the taste has got ever bigger so too has the amount of alcohol in our glass.
Drinking is something we enjoy and inevitably see as an integral part of adult life. Culturally, alcohol is in our blood — and, for many, literally so.
IT'S what your offspring are thinking about but don't want to mention: excessive drinking by their parents.
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, has written to the UK's leading supermarkets demanding action after Department of Health (DoH) officials said that the retail giants had failed to follow through on commitments to remov
How many millions of euro do we spend as a nation warning young people against the dangers of drink? I wonder if we're wasting most of it. Messages from Government and State agencies often centre on health risks.
The number of young people presenting with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) more than trebled over a 12-year-period, leading research experts have said. Writing a letter to the editor in the…