{"id":494,"date":"2012-03-30T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=494"},"modified":"2012-03-30T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:16:19","slug":"counting-the-cost-of-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Counting the cost of alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_496\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-496\" title=\"White wine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/photo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/photo-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/photo-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/photo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/photo.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Set to rise in price - but will people drink less?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, it could soon be last orders for binge-drinking in the UK. Last week the government announced plans to introduce a minimum price on alcohol and a ban on cheap alcohol supermarket deals, to stop young people getting drunk and disorderly even before they go out on the town. But as Lars Bevanger now reports from Manchester, the government\u2019s plans are not popular with the drinks industry and could even face legal challenges within the EU.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/735194-uk-counting-the-cost-of-alcohol\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/735194-uk-counting-the-cost-of-alcohol\">listen to \u2018UK counting the cost of alcohol\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, it could soon be last orders for binge-drinking in the UK. Last week the government announced plans to introduce a minimum price on alcohol and a ban on cheap alcohol supermarket deals, to stop young people getting drunk and disorderly even before they go out on the town. But as Lars Bevanger now reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}