Holyrood's health committee will publish its long-awaited report on the Scottish government's alcohol bill.

THE Scottish government today announced plans to set a minimum price for alcohol in a bid to stop drink being sold for "pocket money prices".

ONE of Scotland's leading public health experts has called on the Scottish Government to set a minimum price for alcohol 50 per cent higher than is currently proposed.

THE Scottish Government has revealed that it wants to set a minimum price of 45p per unit of alcohol.

Alcohol-related discharges from Scottish hospitals jump 20 per cent in five years.

Commenting on KPMG’s report which finds that the alcohol industry has failed to act to tackle problem drinking, Liberal Democrat Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, Don Foster said: "This report provides more damning evidence that existing legislation to tackle alcohol misuse is not being enforced. The alcohol industry simply isn’t paying a blind bit of notice to the Government....

THE Scottish Government was today urged to make more use of one of the country's top alcohol treatment centres.

Cabinet Secretary on the road to talk about alcohol.

Save Dave, the latest government anti-drinking campaign, imagines the British everyman as a drunk simpleton.

A MINIMUM price for alcohol of 40p per unit would eventually save hundreds of lives a year, a Scottish Government commissioned study will reveal this week.