Drinking Banning Orders will allow police and
local authorities to stop a person entering premises if they
have been involved in criminal or disorderly conduct under the
influence of alcohol [Alcohol Policy UK]
Funding to the tune of €21m is to be made
available under the scheme, while the number of information programmes
to highlight the dangers of illegal drug abuse is also set to
increase. [Irish Examiner]
The high level of resistance to attempts to
persuade people of the dangers comes despite evidence that texting
is more dangerous than driving after drinking the legal limit
of alcohol and new legislation enabling offenders to be jailed
for the first time [Independent, UK]
New powers to use telephone taps and listening
devices and conduct cavity searches of suspected drug smugglers
were approved for the first time in a bid to combat an explosion
in heroin trafficking [The Australian]
