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Health chief vows to continue bid for minimum alcohol pricing after Labour opposition

Health campaigners have vowed to continue campaigning for minimum pricing for alcohol, insisting the controversial measure will help tackle a “national epidemic” of alcohol abuse.

Doctors’ leaders criticised Labour’s opposition to minimum pricing, a stance which appears to have scuppered the Scottish Government’s attempt to see this become law.