"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.
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