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Judith Duffy

Nicola Sturgeon pens foreword for WHO report highlighting minimum alcohol pricing success

Alcohol for sale in an Edinburgh off-licence. File photo.

NICOLA Sturgeon has pledged Scotland will share “right and wrong” experiences of minimum alcohol pricing in a major report examining the success of the policy.

The First Minister has written the foreword to the World Health Organisation (WHO) study which has found health harms from alcohol in Europe could be significantly reduced by introducing restrictions on the lowest pricing a drink can be sold for.

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