Real Stories

Alcohol has a real impact on real people, their lives and the lives of others. Quite simply it's people who are suffering at the hands of alcohol.

Here are a few life stories of people in the North East who have been directly affected by alcohol in some way. Through drinking too much too often, suffering health problems as a result of alcohol, being affected at work and through being part of our frontline services.  

If you have a story about alcohol and how it has impacted you please get in touch and help us demostrate the devastating effect it is having on the North East. 

Pub boss calls for last orders on below-cost supermarket sales

Cheap booze is causing misery for hundreds of publicans across the North East, says one licensee, who insists that bars and pubs are the victims - not the culprits of the region’s booze problem.

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Enough drunken pick-ups for North East taxi drivers

Dropping blood stained passengers off at hospital, being threatened with a brick and losing time off work to have vomit cleaned from his car, have all been part of the job for Eddy Binks.

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Enough drunken pick-ups for North East taxi drivers

Dropping blood stained passengers off at hospital, being threatened with a brick and losing time off work to have vomit cleaned from his car, have all been part of the job for Eddy Binks.

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Pub boss calls for last orders on below-cost supermarket sales

Cheap booze is causing misery for hundreds of publicans across the North East, says one licensee, who insists that bars and pubs are the victims - not the culprits of the region’s booze problem.

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PC bears the scars of other people's alcohol misuse

After more than a decade on the beat, PC Anne Marie Gray bears the scars of other people’s alcohol misuse.

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