10,000 Costa of drunken Brits abroad; HOLIDAYS.Byline: JAMES LYONS James Lyons can refer to:
MORE than 10,000 Britons abroad ended up in hospital or cells last year - many because of too much booze Booze sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153] See : Drunkenness . The total includes aged and genuinely sick ex-pats. But the Foreign Office lays the blame mostly on teen holiday alcohol for its new figures. Almost 7,000 Brits were arrested - 991 for drug crimes - while another 3,146 needed hospital care and 5,629 died. Spain was top for drunken trouble with 2,300 held. It also had the largest tally - 741 - getting serious medical care. Swearing and "public affection" were also penalised overseas, while alcohol may have led to 116 rapes and 154 assaults on Brits abroad. Now teenage travellers are being targeted on YouTube adverts showing a wayward tourist called Dick getting into trouble. Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant ''For the British television writer, see Chris Bryant (writer) Christopher John Bryant (born January 11, 1962) is a British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Rhondda, which he has held since 2001. recently visited Corfu to highlight the perils of misbehaving abroad. He said: "Too many young people get carried away." CAPTION(S): WARNING Minister Bryant |
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