Our Dinner Money Is Spent On Booze ; Wasted Youth: Special Report On the Teenage Alcohol Abuse Crisis Blighting Communities Across Wales

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WELSH teenagers are using their dinner money to buy alcohol.

The shock revelation was uncovered by a Wales on Sunday investigation after official figures showed how police had seized 37,000 pints of beer and cider from children in England and Wales in the space of just two weeks.

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Our Dinner Money Is Spent On Booze ; Wasted Youth: Special Report On the Teenage Alcohol Abuse Crisis Blighting Communities Across Wales

And more than 5,000 youngsters were caught boozing in public places in that fortnight alone.

But we can reveal how children barely into their teens are ignoring public health messages and forgoing food in favour of spending their cash on booze.

In a bid to get to the heart of the problem of teen drinking, we took to the streets of Brackla last Friday night.

And what we were told makes chilling reading for every parent in the country.

They told how:

Youngsters as young as 13 are indulging in regular bouts of b...

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