A Scottish government claim that it had EU backing for plans to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol is denied by the European Commission.

Prime Minister David Cameron is known to have sympathy with the idea of minimum pricing, which medics say could save nearly 10,000 lives per year if set at 50p per unit. Gosh, that’s amazing. Alcohol related deaths in the UK rose to 9,031 in 2008, up from 8,724 the previous year. Rilly? A slight rise

A minimum alcohol price would have a slightly smaller effect on consumption than first estimated, academics tell the Scottish government.

Organised criminals are depriving exchequer of more than £1bn of excise duties a year by diverting exports

Parliament's science and technology committee chairman said new advice to have two days a week completely clear of alcohol was "not a green light for having a binge" on another day.

People should have at least two days a week completely clear of alcohol, a group of MPs say.

News that David Cameron is planning on imposing minimum alcohol pricing has not produced anything near the level of disgust that it should have. This policy has the fatal flaw of expecting alcoholics and binge drinkers to behave in a rational and financially prudent manner. It’s self-evident that both groups will continue to purchase alcohol

The British government’s Christmas gift to the English this year was minimum pricing on alcohol, a tax that will penalise the millions of occasional drinkers who cause absolutely no problems whatsoever and the off-licences who are already struggling to make a living in the face of stuff competition from supermarkets. The Calais booze cruise is

Here’s your starter for ten in our weekend slot where we throw up an idea or thought for debate… Just in time to kill everyone’s new year buzz David Cameron has announced government plans to introduce minimum alcohol pricing in England, similar to recent proposals by the Scottish government. The details are still to be

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