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Here's Tim Halford.

Hello and welcome to more or less,

the programme which drinks deeply from the glass of statistical good sense.

This week we return to Trumpton.

Good heavens, there's water dripping through the ceiling.

But first.

Almost 300 children under the age of 12 were admitted to A&E units

across the UK last year after drinking too much.

This BBC story was picked up by the National Press.

Hundreds of drunk under 11 sent to A&E.

Almost 311 year olds admitted to A&E for alcohol abuse

up by a third in a single year.

Army of children overwhelming A&E with drug and alcohol problems.

An army?

300 children's almost one a day somewhere in the UK,

so I rather hope A&E units are less than overwhelmed by that.

But still, 11 year olds, it's pretty worrying.

And an army of loyal listeners emailed us at more or less at bbc.co.uk

to say they thought the story was absolutely shocking,

shockingly implausible, and one of them was James Turner.

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