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US transplant man drink-drives

Supervision could have saved teen - report

Members of a school 1st XV with a booze "culture" were left to drink unsupervised for three hours in London on the night a teen sleepwalked to his death.

Winter Olympian's wake-up call

Killer's sentence 'makes mockery of young man's life'

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Parents teaching lessons in disrespect

Most people want drinking age raised - poll

King's party axed after failure to secure bar

Plans have been scrapped for a King's College after-ball where parents were going to buy their children alcohol.

<i>Grant Christie:</i> Hard decisions needed about youth drinking

Grant Christie asks whether alcohol reform is a matter of conscience or science.

Rich-lister fights for King's after-ball

Parents of King's College students have devised a plan to allow alcohol at their children's after-ball party - but the school says it is keeping right out of the matter.

Parents get into the party spirit

Parents of a student at Rangitoto College, which cancelled its school balls this year because of a boozy party after last year's, are organising two private balls.

Confiscated alcohol still missing, say students

The student organisers of an after-ball where police raided a van-load of alcohol say they do not know what happened to the booze.

'Blind drunk' driver escapes jail

<i>Cate Honore Brett:</i> Society must wake up to dangers of drink for adolescents

Majority back lowering drink-drive alcohol limit

15 after-balls axe liquor plans as the heat goes on

After-ball committees from 15 schools in Auckland have cancelled plans to hold functions in which parents provide alcohol to teenagers.

Events firm denies supplying liquor to after-ball parties

An events firm embroiled in police crackdowns on after-balls says it doesn't supply alcohol to minors - it just works with parents committees.

Survey: NZers favour blood-alcohol reduction

NZers favour reducing the amount drivers can legally drink before getting behind the wheel, with 70 per cent supporting a limit of 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, a survey finds.

Police after-ball crackdown mocked online

Thousands of young people have gone online to mock and protest the police's crackdown on high school after-ball parties.