PUBS in East Lancashire are refusing to sell the controversial alcoholic milk drinks that are the latest in the novelty booze craze. Quite right, too.

For it is not just that these spirit-laced milk shakes are, like the so-called alcopops that have burst on the drinks scene, an attraction to under-age drinkers.

They are just a cynical attempt to exploit young drinkers.

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