Back home from our marathon trip, and it seems that we’ve been missing interesting announcements back home whilst we’ve been in Japan. According to the BBC:

Thousands of teenagers had a total of 5,171 litres of alcohol confiscated in a summer crackdown on binge drinking, the government has said.

As part of a £1.4m campaign, more than 3,500 youngsters in 69 “priority areas” of England were stopped between July and September.

What I love about this, from an Abel-can-pervert-anything-to-create-scene-potential perspective is the subsequent comment, though: apparently “more than 1,800 parents were informed”.

Not only, it seems was young Haron not studying in the library on the evening in question – but she was with that boy she promised she wouldn’t ever see again. And – shock, horror – she’s not teetotal after all. Indeed (gasps of horrified astonishment) she must have been buying booze underage. Get upstairs immediately, young lady…