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The cup that runneth over

LONDON: Wine glasses in Britain’s bars are now larger than ever before and deepening the country’s problematic relationship with alcohol, lawmakers and health officials warn.

Huge measures of wine, and a glut of cheap alcohol on sale at supermarkets, are fuelling a worrying rise in problem drinking among adult drinkers, officials say.

Government research has found up to a quarter of adults are also consuming dangerous amounts of alcohol at home. — AP

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