Plans to combat alcohol-fuelled violence in city centres suffer a setback after no councils sign up to a flagship initiative.

Plans for minimum-pricing of alcohol in Scotland will be blocked because the government does not have the support.

THE SNP has hit out at a Labour bid to scupper plans for some areas to ban under-21s from buying alcohol.

A committee of MSPs is due to quiz Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon on her plans to set a minimum unit price for alcohol.

I've just noticed that our old friend Sir Liam Donaldson is up to his tricks again. As predicted, the plan for minimum pricing of alcohol units is now being eyed up for the rest of the UK as well. The government's top medical adviser has drawn up plans for a minimum price for alcohol which would double the cost of some drinks in England. For trenchant and more than usually sweary analysis, see the...

Opponents of plans to raise the age for buying alcohol in shops and off-sales today renewed their claim that the change would not solve Scotland's drink problem.

POLITICIANS have been urged to put party differences aside and back Scottish Government plans for a minimum price on alcohol.

Scottish government plans to raise the off-sales alcohol purchase age from 18 to 21 are set to be rejected.

A ban on cut-price alcohol could be introduced next year under plans to curb alcohol abuse among young people.

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a minimum alcohol price face defeat in a key Holyrood vote today.