<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fda42015-034e-4dde-87c6-a25fd12d3f92/D6F467B9-4CD2-4AE2-AC9C-A6D3CB5051A6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory05n.htm"><P align="center"><DIV><FONT size="3" face="MS Sans Serif"><B>Should council rethink city’s 5am trading?</B> </FONT></DIV> <FONT size="2" face="MS Sans Serif"> Written by <B>PHILIP NOLAN</B>.</FONT> </P><P>EXTENDED hotel trading hours, such as Wangaratta’s 5 am weekend limit, are being targeted in a national offensive against alcohol related violence.</p> <P>Residents and traders in Wangaratta are being urged to ask the council to come up with a plan to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence in a push being headed by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation.</p> <P>The foundation points the finger at the "<B>explosion of liquor outlets</B>" and also existing trading hours.</p> <P>"<B>Current trading hours in general are excessive, irresponsible and have created hot spots of trouble in many parts of Australia, leading to an increase in alcohol related violence,</B>" foundation chief executive, Daryl Smeaton, said.</p> <P>He said that new research showed that over 14 million Australians are now concerned about alcohol related violence, and 10 million were more concerned than they were three years ago</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D6F467B9-4CD2-4AE2-AC9C-A6D3CB5051A6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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