Tagged bottle blitz on underage booze sales

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Tagged bottle blitz on underage booze sales

Bottles of booze are to be tagged with invisible labels in a bid to crackdown on the sale of alcohol to youngsters.

The pioneering approach will see bottles marked with symbols that can only be seen under ultra violet light, allowing police and trading standards officers to trace where the item was bought. They have strong adhesive that makes them very difficult to remove.