CHILDREN as young as 11 and 12 are being caught drinking and driving in Scotland, police records show.
There were 718 drink-drive offenders from 2008 to 2013 including "numerous" incidents involving 12-year-olds.
The total number of underage drink-drive incidents across the UK had fallen year-on-year, but a number of police areas had seen an increase from 2012 to 2013.
These included South Yorkshire, Northumbria, Thames Valley, Kent, North Yorkshire, West Mercia, Staffordshire, South Wales, Cheshire and Cambridgeshire.
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