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| Pupils calling for an inquiry into the public health impact of cheap alcohol are to provide evidence to MSPs. | Pupils calling for an inquiry into the public health impact of cheap alcohol are to provide evidence to MSPs. |
| The Public Petitions Committee is to leave its Holyrood base and host a meeting at All Saints Secondary School in the Barmulloch area of Glasgow. | The Public Petitions Committee is to leave its Holyrood base and host a meeting at All Saints Secondary School in the Barmulloch area of Glasgow. |
| The school said the move proved to students that those in power did take notice of young people's opinions. | The school said the move proved to students that those in power did take notice of young people's opinions. |
| Earlier this month, three pupils from the school presented the 1,000th public petition to Holyrood. | Earlier this month, three pupils from the school presented the 1,000th public petition to Holyrood. |
| The committee will hear the pupils' evidence, which was gained by conducting research in the shops around their school where they found alcohol on sale for less than the price of a bottle of water. | The committee will hear the pupils' evidence, which was gained by conducting research in the shops around their school where they found alcohol on sale for less than the price of a bottle of water. |
| Their petition will be the first of eight being considered by the committee on Monday, all which have been submitted by petitioners from the Glasgow area. | Their petition will be the first of eight being considered by the committee on Monday, all which have been submitted by petitioners from the Glasgow area. |
| Sarah Richford, a teacher at All Saints School, said the three students were looking forward to putting their case to the committee. | Sarah Richford, a teacher at All Saints School, said the three students were looking forward to putting their case to the committee. |
| "They are delighted to be given this opportunity to speak to the committee directly," she said. | "They are delighted to be given this opportunity to speak to the committee directly," she said. |
| "By coming to Glasgow and visiting All Saints, the committee is providing a great example to the whole school of democracy at work." | "By coming to Glasgow and visiting All Saints, the committee is providing a great example to the whole school of democracy at work." |
| Also on Monday, Health Minister Andy Kerr, who represents East Kilbride, is meeting the firm which distributes Buckfast, the fortified wine which is said by critics to be contributing to Scotland's youth binge drinking problem. | |
| His ministerial colleague, Cathy Jamieson, has called for the drink to be banned from sale in her constituency of Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley in Ayrshire. | |
| Drink toll | |
| Last year, 750 children aged 11 to 16 were admitted to hospital in Scotland with alcohol-related problems. | |
| Paediatricians have said they are seeing increasing numbers of intoxicated children. | |
| In January, a study in the medical journal The Lancet showed that the number of male deaths in Scotland from cirrhosis of the liver had quadrupled since the 1950s, with the female death rate almost trebling. | |
| Scotland needed a "major cultural shift" to address a faster rising rate of drink related deaths than anywhere in western Europe, it warned. |