From the Mail Online

This shrieking ladette was photographed staggering through Cardiff city centre late on Friday night.

Such scenes are not uncommon, which is why Cardiff - one of the country’s worst cities for binge drinking - has just banned boozing on the streets.

The crackdown is aimed at late night revellers, targeting rowdy hen and stag parties and generally trying to make the streets safer after dark.

Police can use the new powers to confiscate alcohol or arrest anyone who defies them.

Experts warned that British schoolgirls are the worst for binge drinking in Europe. The problem is likely to become worse as it becomes more socially acceptable, a conference heard.

Some 648 children under ten were admitted to hospital due to drink between 2003 and 2008.

Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said: ‘We are more than double our nearest rivals when it comes to women binge drinking. We stand out like sore thumbs.’

He added that many career women were drinking to ‘hold their own’ with male colleagues at after-work drinking sessions.