UK: Cardiff bans street-drinking due to ladette excesses

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'The crackdown is aimed at late night revellers, targeting rowdy hen and stag parties and generally trying to make the streets safer after dark.

Police can use the new powers to confiscate alcohol or arrest anyone who defies them.
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The Designated Public Place Order - a power introduced by the Home Office - does not make drinking in public illegal.

But police can order people to stop drinking on the streets and can confiscate their alcohol. Anyone failing to comply will be arrested.
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The measures follow the revelation that drink was responsible for more than half the violent assaults in the city centre in the past 12 months.
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It comes as experts warned that British schoolgirls are the worst for binge drinking in Europe. The problem is likely to become worse as it becomes more socially acceptable, a conference heard.
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Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: 'We are more than double our nearest rivals when it comes to women binge drinking. We stand out like sore thumbs.'
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Many familiar scenes of debauchery were seen, including half-naked women collapsing on the street.'