On 31st July 2008 Sivapathasunderam Sivaraj ,31, of 39 Arnley Road Liverpool 4 pleaded guilty at Liverpool City Magistrates’ Court to selling alcohol to a Trading Standards 15 year old volunteer and was fined £500 and costs of £175 were awarded.

Night fever turned into cabin fever when more than 3,000 students visited Liverpool Primary Care Trust’s ‘Chill Out Log Cabin’, which recently toured the city to discourage binge drinking.

Liverpool is no longer the binge drinking capital of the North West, according to research just released by health watchdog, the North West Public Health Observatory.

Public health experts from all across the UK are in Liverpool this week to see first hand some of the groundbreaking initiatives being delivered by Liverpool Primary Care Trust (PCT).

As the next move in its campaign to fight alcohol abuse, Liverpool PCT now has its sights set on a less prominent, but equally tragic, aspect of the city’s alcohol culture – the misuse of alcohol among older people.