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Counting the health cost of booze culture

Police hit the town centre during Operation Yellow Card

2:00pm Thursday 21st August 2008

AT any one time in Warrington Hospital around a third of inpatients are there because of alcohol.

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Health plans to make a stand on binge drinking

12:30pm Thursday 21st August 2008

HEALTH bosses have a comprehensive plan for tackling the problems drinking brings.

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What happens when drinking stops being fun?

10:38am Thursday 21st August 2008

THE physical effects of alcohol on the individual can, at their worst, cause liver cancer as well as obesity, diabetes, pancreatitis, psychosis and around 100 more conditions.

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I always said to Garry it will take someone being murdered

8:50am Tuesday 19th August 2008

“I ALWAYS said to Garry: ‘They will wait until somebody is murdered before they actually do something’ and unfortunately it was Garry.”

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Work continues to crush anti-social behaviour

4:50pm Monday 18th August 2008

LITTLE more than five months ago details of a new action plan to tackle anti-social behaviour in the town centre first emerged.

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Partners have their say on Operation Checkpoint

4:20pm Thursday 14th August 2008

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What punters think of Operation Checkpoint

3:20pm Thursday 14th August 2008

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Praise for Operation Checkpoint

12:20pm Thursday 14th August 2008

OFFICERS from Trading Standards praised the work being carried out in the town centre to combat under age drinking.

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Operation Checkpoint aims to clean up town centre

11:10am Thursday 14th August 2008

POLICE armed with metal detectors and sniffer dogs set up checkpoints around the town centre on Saturday to search drinkers for weapons and drugs.

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There is a need to understand young people

5:00pm Thursday 7th August 2008

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National News

Fiancee is 'worried sick' over hero

Updated 5:51am Sunday 12th October 2008

The fiance of Glasgow Airport car bomb hero John Smeaton has said she was "worried sick" about him after flying in from New York to be at his hospital bedside.

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