In today's "Independent"....

Page 16 - "A new craze for inhaling alcohol could cause brain damage, medical experts warned yesterday."

Page 17 - "Consumers spent £1.3bn on alcohol in the run-up to Christmas. Almost £69m worth of Stella Artois lager was bought in the month before Christmas, making it the season's best-seller, a long way ahead of Bailey's Irish Cream, which claimed second place with sales of £35m, aaccording to figures from the analysts AC Nielsen.... British shoppers bought more US wine than Italian wine fro the first time last year.... Wines from Australia remained the most popular in the the UK".