"With the present system, it is difficult or impossible for a frontline bobby to use his discretion when dealing with a young person" - Martin Spragg, head of Devon Youth Offending Team, on police arresting young people for minor crimes like the theft of an 8p marble
"Children have quite a bit of nutritional knowledge but don't have the attitude to make the right choices. They are making choices about their health and maybe they are not equipped to do so" - Nutritionist Carina Norris, whose study into Scottish schoolchildren's eating habits found one boy consumed 1.5 litres of Irn Bru and 12 Jaffa Cakes for lunch
"Year-on-year the worst time is Halloween. It seems that all young people in the capital are out and about that evening" - Detective Chief Superintendent Barry Norman, head of the Metropolitan Police's Violent Crime Directorate.
