When BBC Leicester's Helen Astle spoke to local Sam, around 22:00 in the centre of Loughborough, he had already drank about six or seven pints. Sam is 16 and has been going out and drinking in bars for six months. Listen to BBC Radio Leicester's Helen Astle talking to Sam and others on her underage drinkering investigation...He told Helen, "You don't even get ID-ed most of the time and if you do you can get it for a tenner off the internet, which is nothing for fake ID, and they work." At the bar Sam had just left Helen discovered a number of customers who looked underage and a lack of bouncers keeping tabs on who gets in. You're not coming in? | | A pint |
Carl, a doorman at a major bar in Loughborough, told Helen, "Lots of kids try to blag it and get their own way in. "If a doorman catches them then they throw them out because it's their neck on the line." On average Saturday night Carl estimates that he turns away 150 youngsters who look under 18 and can't prove they aren't. Taxi driver David often sees many very drunk girls stumbling out of clubs in the early hours of the morning. He shockingly believes many of them may be under 16. | 
