Drunken 16 year olds wreck havoc in Newquay

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Newquay has been making great efforts to stop under age drinking amongst visitors after Paddy Higgins (16) tragically died in 2010 falling off the notorious cliffs.

It's now one of the hardest places in the country to obtain alcohol.

Why do some parents still think it's acceptable to send their drink-laden teenagers to Newquay - is it "out of sight, out of mind" or is this behaviour which they would find acceptable at home as well?

Some parents have weird ideas about their children and alcohol, either thinking that of course their child won't do that, and will sip responsibly at a can of shandy all night, or that teens deserve a chance to have fun and "get it out of their system" and that there'll be "no harm done".

I don't know what Newquay did at the start to become the post-GCSE party place, but it has had that reputation for a while now. I'm glad to see they deal with it when it happens, but it takes a long while for a reputation to catch up with reality.

Yes, fingers crossed Newquay will lose that reputation, and that no more children will lose their lives.

I'm guessing the parents who rented the apartment won't be getting their deposit back...

read on down that article .....

^At a local campsite, five 16-year-olds from Essex, destroyed a caravan and were collected. In the second a further two 16-year-olds from Solihull, West Midlands, were picked up after they became drunk and wrecked the room they were staying in at a youth hostel.

Last week there were 25 arrests, 142 seizures of alcohol and seven people banned from the town. At the town's railway station, officers seized six litres of vodka, two litres of Bacardi and 16 cans of other alcohol from underage travellers.^

I know of a mum from round here who did the Majestic Run before dropping her 16 year old and friends down there. Stupid rich cow.

More fool the parents- their wallet will suffer (a lot I hope- Cornwall has to put up with so much of this crap it's just not funny). Although frankly, at 16 she ought to have been able to be left alone for a few days without inviting all her feckless mates in to trash the place.

It used to be Rock that was full of drunken Hoorays in June. Seems to have shifted to Newquay now, maybe because Rock introduced some fairly stringent drunkenness by-laws.

We only have a 10 and 12 yr old but were having a conversation about this very issue yesterday.

Our DSs school sent a letter hme to parents reminding them NOT to let pupils have a unsupervised parties at home with alcohol. Apparently, it has been happening and the school is having to deal with the fallout. This is a naice private day school by the way.

What is even more staggering is apparently one parent sent out a party invite for their teen saying that 'no spirits are allowed'. Which in other words means everything else like beer, wine, cider was allowed.

No way are our children going Newquay - spoil sport or not.

it's a real middle class exodus isn't it, completely mental imo