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St Andrews University expert warns minimum pricing could hit whisky industry hard
The Scottish Government could sabotage the country's greatest export, according to a leading whisky export. (...)
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Supermarkets reject MSPs' 'profits before health' accusations
Supermarkets are prioritising profits over public health by slashing alcohol prices and encouraging online buying, MSPs have claimed. (...)
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Addictions expert says supermarkets should be banned from selling alcohol
Alcohol should be banned from supermarkets as part of a crackdown on harmful drinking, a leading Tayside doctor has told MSPs. (...)
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Dundee licensing board wants profits levy to ensure NHS benefits from minimum alcohol pricing
Dundee City Council's licensing board is to recommend to the Scottish Government that any additional profits from the implementation of minimum pricing of alcohol should benefit the NHS. (...)
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Scottish Government points to Canada as reason to resurrect minimum alcohol pricing plans
The Scottish Government is to bring forward its bill on the minimum pricing of alcohol within the next month. (...)
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Kenny MacAskill praises 'excellent initiative' to tackle underage drinking
Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill met a Cupar shopkeeper on Wednesday to find out how responsible licensees were tackling underage drinking. (...)
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Willie Rennie says Liberal Democrats will now support SNP's minimum alcohol pricing plans
The new leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has announced a policy U-turn by saying he will back renewed SNP plans to impose a minimum price for alcohol. (...)
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Crieff teenager's case seen as providing more evidence of need for minimum alcohol pricing
Health minister Nicola Sturgeon has reiterated the Scottish Government's determination to introduce alcohol price controls after a Crieff teenager was convicted of his first offence after a booze binge. (...)
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Salmond sets out case for more powers for Holyrood
Alex Salmond fired the starting gun on the march to independence as he demanded major new powers for the Scottish Parliament. (...)
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New campaign calling for 'level playing field' on alcohol prices to protect licensed trade
A new campaign set up by licensees in Tayside and Fife is warning that the ready availability of cheap booze is having a catastrophic impact on the nation's hospitality trade. (...)
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Biomass casts long shadow over The Courier hustings in Dundee
Controversial plans to build a biomass generator at Dundee docks dominated The Courier's final hustings. (...)
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MSPs' beer a 'reward' for alcohol pricing vote
MSPs who blocked plans for minimum pricing for alcohol have been sent free beer by a major brewer. (...)
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Pressure mounts to set minimum price for alcohol
Prominent doctors, publicans, police officers and charity leaders from across Tayside and Fife have thrown their weight behind plans to introduce a minimum price per unit for alcohol in Scotland. (...)
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David Nutt's alcohol study backed by Scottish groups
Drugs and alcohol charities have thrown their weight behind a controversial new study which claims alcohol is more harmful than heroin. (...)
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Expert fears local alcohol minimum pricing would fail
A bid to introduce minimum alcohol pricing in Dundee's pubs and clubs through the licensing board bringing in a local by-law could result in "booze tourists", with tipplers heading into other council areas which allowed alcohol to be sold cheaply. (...)
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City to investigate local control of alcohol pricing
Dundee licensing chief Rod Wallace is to ask city council officials to investigate the possibility of introducing minimum alcohol pricing in the city's pubs and clubs through a by-law. (...)
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Scottish alcohol deaths doubled — claim
The number of Scots dying of alcohol-related diseases has doubled in a generation, one of Tayside's leading experts on alcohol abuse has claimed. (...)
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MSP calling for new focus on binge drinking
A politician has called for a "new focus" on finding a solution to Scotland's binge drinking problems after plans for blanket minimum alcohol pricing were rejected at Holyrood. (...)
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Minimum price alcohol bid voted out once again
Plans to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol were branded dead in the water on Wednesday after a Holyrood committee rejected them. (...)
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Trader pessimistic about future of independent pubs in Fife
Small pubs in Fife will be calling last orders for good shortly as supermarkets and chain pubs tighten their grip on alcohol sales, according to a member of the region's licensed trade association. (...)
