News.Scotland.Org

January, 29

The youths in Scotland have embraced this boozing culture like a new trend and most of the youths are having this hard drink as a child’s play. This problem is growing more and more and illegal drinking is seen in huge number now a days. In one of such incident the Grampian police caught an under-age drinker who was found with alcohol in a baby’s bottle. It was known that with the growing number of under-age drinking police were put on alert to nab these illegal drinkers, and in the same process this youth was caught by the police here yesterday.

According to police during this patrolling in sensitive area where these young drinkers could we nabbed, they caught couple of youth with alcohol in their possession. While the patrol police caught one youth who was carrying a baby feeding bottle containing cider with him. It was also known that during this past weekend alone, police have caught two more youths under-aged who were conveyed home after they were under the influence of alcohol. As in recent past it was learnt that many such untoward accident occurred where youths who were driving under influence of liquor claimed lives of many innocent people on roads.

Even the parents were unaware of the fact that their wards are risking their lives and also of others, with this alcohol mania. It has to be thought from the side of the parents that what their children are doing. Parents should keep an eye on their children and try to protect them from all these unhealthy things. Police is trying all measure to curb this growing menace and have also issued a fine of £40 for any youth of 16 and over to be caught drinking liquor in public. Hope with these initiative such illegal incidents will decrease.

Scotland, Jan 29: Environmental pollution and the related climatic change remains the hot topic of discussion among the countries of the world. The government of Scotland as an attempt to minimise the adverse effect of climatic change is planning to take measures to minimise the pollution rate by 80%. A coalition of environmental groups has claimed that with this initiative Scotland is expected to become a “global leader” in the fight against climate change.

Various environmental organisations have put forth their suggestion to tackle increase in the pollution rate. Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) has suggested a list of measures the country should introduce to be a role model to the rest of the world. SCCS is an umbrella group for more than 30 organisations such as the National Trust for Scotland, Friends of the Earth Scotland, and the Church of Scotland.

While commenting on this the Chairman of the Climate Change Bill said: “This bill is more positive and historically significant one. Scotland has the great chance to become a role model for the rest of the world in this regard. The reduction of green house gas by at least 3% a year is essential; this should be done without any harm to our environment.”

He further added that: “Climate change is not a problem of the future, the adverse effect of it can be witnessed in the developing countries. It is our duty as being the developed world to take responsibility for our actions and seriously consider about minimising the emission rate. If the proposal is made into a reality this could be considered as the more positive and historically significant bill in our lifetime.”

John Swinney, Finance and Sustainable Growth Secretary will formally launch the consultation on the Climate Change Bill at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh.