According to test purchasing results published by the Home Office, an initiative that paired shopkeepers with the Retail Alcohol Standards Group (RASG), has made ii far harder for British under-18s to buy alcohol.Figures show that supermarkets were nearly three times more likely to spot an under-age buyer than they were before. Off licences (Bottle shop/liquor shop), also improved and are now twice as likely to spot under-age purchasers.
Gone are the days when on a school cross-country run, myself and my mate popped into the local off licence and bought a bottle of Guinness each. We tucked these into the front of our running shorts for consumption on a river bank..
Our plans were cut short by a female teacher who spotted us, looked at our shorts and made the sort of comment I had no idea female teachers were allowed to make!
