The Scotsman headlines its report today on new statistics on alcohol consumption in Scottish schoolchildren “One in seven children ‘drinking regularly’”.

If there’s a charity more careless in its use of statistics than Alcohol Concern, I’d like to know of it.

Ministers in the Coalition Government need to watch their claims more carefully.
 

Just how likely is it that you – or your teenage son – will be attacked by a stranger in the street?

More than one in five boys and one in seven girls have difficulty in learning to talk, according to research released last week by Jean Gross, England’s “Communications Champion&r

Middle-class parents have been taken to task by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, over what he calls their “obsession” with serving watered-down wine to their children.