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Quotes of the week

"Britain's youth justice system is the worst domestic scandal of the Labour years. In the name of decency, and in an age of falling crime, the government is turning today's failures into tomorrow's wrecks and predators" - Daily Telegraph columnist Mary Riddell

"At 18 you can vote, drive, marry and fight for your country, but don't expect to buy a six-pack to drink in front of the TV when you get back from Iraq" - Gavin Hewitt, chief executive of the Scottish Whisky Association, attacks plans by the Scottish government to ban under-21s from buying alcohol in shops

"We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture, which, in my view, stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport" - London Mayor Boris Johnson.

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