LICENSEES are being praised, following the success of a summer crackdown on under-age drinkers.
Wigan Council's Trading Standards officers found that only four of the 43 off-licences they visited in the borough sold alcohol to the team's 14-year-old volunteer.
Test purchases carried out all over the country during the past fortnight found that 29 per cent of shops sold alcohol to young people.
This percentage was much lower in the Leigh area where only 9.3 per cent of the off-licences visited served the volunteers.
Chief Trading Standards Officer Alan Blundell welcomed the results, but said the crackdown will continue: "The survey has borne out what we knew all along -- that the vast majority of off-licences and their staff are responsible people who do not want to sell alcohol to children."
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