What a pity that West Dorset District Council wa not a bit braver over the case of Tesco selling alcohol to an under-age person.
Here was an opportunity to make an example. I wonder if it had been a corner shop and not Tesco, with all its large legal team, the punishment would have been a lot harsher, perhaps even the taking away of the licence completely.
What is £100,000 to Tesco other than just a slight inconvenience, but to have revoked the licence would have really shown that councils mean business and caused them a huge financial penalty?
Let us hope that the police and trading standards do lots more test cases and stamp out the under-age drinking that is causing residents all over Weymouth so much unnecessary noise and violence.
Of course, we can help by reporting stores who sell to under-age people - and also the practice of an older person buying the alcohol and then passing it on to the under-age drinkers.
This is a criminal offence and we should all help to stamp it out.
Ken Whatley, Ranelagh Road, Weymouth.
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