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Morning Extra - Why are children getting their hands on booze?

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More than a third of councils in Scotland have not suspended a single shop licence in the past five years for sales of alcohol to underage drinkers. BBC Scotland has learned that this is despite one in seven off-licences being guilty of selling to under-18s in the most recent police testing scheme. Are we unfairly victimising the children? And what sanctions would you impose on the guilty retailers? Plus, Professor Gerard DeGroot from St Andrews University tells us why nostalgia for the 1960s has clouded our memories such that we forget the "mindless mayhem, shallow commercialism and unbridled cruelty" which characterised much of the decade. Graham Stewart (standing in for Gary Robertson) takes your calls, texts and emails.