Booze Britain

Sheffield: Home to the best student nightlife in the country. We're spending the evening with 5 lads as they play complicated drinking games, before going to South Yorkshire.

Nuneaton: Tonight Booze Britain spends a night in Nuneaton in Warwickshire as our journey around our binge nation continues. We're hitting the town with a mixed group - two loved-up couples and a love triangle where unrequited lust causes tears by the end of the evening. But it's not all drink-fuelled misery as we have a surprise happy ending in store. We're also on a night shift with Sergeant David Williams of the Warwickshire Police as he and his officers corner a man suspected of assaulting a bouncer and deal with a lock-in at a kebab house.

Canterbury: Tonight Booze Britain visits the historic town of Canterbury and finds out that the UK's addiction to alcohol has even arrived in such a picturesque tourist trap. Canterbury's home to 30,000 students and tonight we're out with the Thursday Club - a group of university students who've made binge drinking their specialised subject. With a full programme of drinking games, this group are on a mission to celebrate the end of term. Who cares if one of them has still got an exam in the morning? And we're spending a night shift with the Kent ambulance as they try to avoid being used as a taxi service for drunks.

Canterbury: Tonight Booze Britain visits the historic town of Canterbury and finds out that the UK's addiction to alcohol has even arrived in such a picturesque tourist trap. Canterbury's home to 30,000 students and tonight we're out with the Thursday Club - a group of university students who've made binge drinking their specialised subject. With a full programme of drinking games, this group are on a mission to celebrate the end of term. Who cares if one of them has still got an exam in the morning? And we're spending a night shift with the Kent ambulance as they try to avoid being used as a taxi service for drunks.

Newcastle: Recently voted the eighth best party town in the world! We're out with 3 lasses who are dressed up as schoolgirls and hitting the town to celebrate Joanne's birthday.

Weymouth: Tonight we're joining a girls' night out in Weymouth in Dorset. Four local girls are spending their last summer together after leaving school and tonight they're celebrating - without their boyfriends. But after one too many alcopops, they're not such good mates at the end of the night. We're also on patrol with paramedic Mick Barnes who deals with the casualties of the rise in binge drinking among women as he deals with one call after another to drunk women around the town.

Southampton: Tonight we're visiting Southampton, home to forty thousand students and we're hitting the town with four of them. They start the night with complicated drinking games including the infamous Centurion where they each knock back one hundred swigs of beer in one hundred minutes. After a full-on start like this, will they all make it to the end of the night? And we're on with Hampshire ambulance paramedic Mark Collins who sees the dark side of the nation's booze habits when he's called to deal with a drunk woman who's been fighting with police. And if that wasn't bad enough, she's eight months pregnant

Cheltenham: Tonight we're visiting Cheltenham in the Cotswolds during Festival week, when 230,000 racegoers descend on the town. Across the week the punters spend 2.5 million pounds on booze, nearly as much as the total prize money for the 24 races. We'll be joining a loaded group of playboys who are going to be betting big and boozing bigger. The more they win, the more goes into the booze kitty, so they've got their fingers crossed for the main race of the day. And we're on patrol with the emergency services as the police and ambulance deal with the consequences of thousands of racegoers pouring onto the streets to celebrate their winnings or drown their sorrows.

Hull: Tonight we're visiting Hull - travelling across the Humber with four lads from Grimbsy who want to drink the town dry and pull a bird. They have a bet about who can score first but rounds of spirits and high-strength cocktails leave a couple of them worse for wear. Will their blatent pulling tactics work tonight? And we're on the road with Hull paramedic John Burnett on a night shift dominated by alcohol related incidents - from hoax calls, to timewasters, to a birthday boy who's had a few too many.

Weston Super Mare: Tonight, Booze Britain is visiting Weston-Super-Mare. We're out with hardened binge drinker Pete and his mates as they spend the night downing pints, shots and alcopops to celebrate the end of the working week. Four out of ten male drinking sessions turn into binges and tonight we'll see alcopop races, blokes on the pull and a shocking party trick - downing a shot and eating the glass. Plus we're on patrol with the Avon and Somerset Constabulary who are on the streets of Weston, looking out for underage drinkers and abusive drunks.

Walsall: Tonight, Booze Britain is visiting Walsall in the West Midlands as we continue the tour of our binge nation. We start the night at the headquarters of the Friday Night Club - a university drinking club. The FNC boys are having a golf-themed pub crawl to bid farewell to big drinker Eoin, who is off to Oz in the morning. After a few drinking games they head off to town with their golf-clubs and scorecards in hand. And we're out with West Midlands Ambulance paramedic Trevor Ford who has to deal with a drunk driver who's lost control of his car and his temper.

Torquay: Tonight we're heading into Torquay with a group of lads who are having a pubcrawl to celebrate Dan's twentieth birthday. There's a lethal looking punch on the menu to get things started and with shots, pints and alcopops, the lads are on a mission to get the birthday boy wasted. Will he still be standing at the end of the night? And we're out with officers from the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary who keep a strong presence in town to deal with alcohol related trouble. But with one in five violent incidents taking place in or near a pub or club, they've got their hands full.

Derby: Tonight Booze Britain visits Derby, the real ale capital of the country. We're out with a group of drinkers who are swapping a country pub for a night on the lash in town. Among the group are the self styled Lone Rangers who stick together no matter what. We also spend the night shift at the AandE of Derby Royal Infirmary where a pub landlord needs treatment after his farewell party turns nasty

Portsmouth: Tonight Booze Britain is visiting Portsmouth. We're out with three local girls who are doing a pub crawl in style, they're travelling in a pink limo. It's champagne all the way to town and shots when they get there. Their drinking habits make them typical of today's heavy drinking youngsters. British teenagers are among the heaviest boozers in Europe and in some parts of the country, girls are outdrinking boys. And we're on duty with Dick and Karen from Hampshire Ambulance service who have to deal with a girl who's had her nose broken by a stranger and a man who's been assaulted while walking home alone.

Newcastle: Tonight Booze Britain is visiting Newcastle on Tyne - recently voted the eighth best party town in the world! We're out with three canny Geordie lasses who are dressing up as schoolgirls and hitting the town to celebrate Joanne's birthday. Out with her are Claire and Karen - who is better known to the locals as glamour model Jet. And we're on duty with paramedic Justin, who is called to help locals who have been on the wrong end of a golf club, a signet ring and one too many alcopops.

Birmingham: This EP0of Booze Britain follows a group of gay and straight girls on a night out in Birmingham. Starting the night at home the girls enter Birmingham in the timeless elegance of a white limo. Fuelled by alcohol the girls night proves to be very eventful ending in falling outs and throwing up. On the streets of Birmingham paramedics Emma Delaney and Pete Abrahms are picking up the pieces of boozy nights gone wrong.

Colchester: Booze Britain: Binge Nation has travelled the country to see at first hand the results of the country's love affair with alcohol. Tonight we're in Colchester with Colm and his mates. He's a giant of a man - he's a part time bouncer and full time binge drinker. He's out with five mates to have a pubcrawl before ending up at a nightclub where Hawaiian Night will mean lots of bikini clad women for them to choose from. But before they've even left the first bar, they're one man down. And we're with paramedic John Nicolls as he sees at first hand the trouble people get into when boozing goes bad.

London:They've been all over the UK seeing first hand the nation's addiction to alcohol. Tonight we're in the capital where 1/10 of the country's pubs and clubs are located.

Glasgow: For three months, Booze Britain teams travelled the country to find out the truth behind the nation's addiction to alcohol. We travelled to Glasgow to join Suit Paul and friends on a typical night out on the town. A typical night for them begins with bottles of tonic wine downed like water, carries on as one of them throws up five times and ends up with the self confessed nasty wee man of the group having a scuffle with a bunch of strangers. We're also spending a night shift with paramedic Matt Flounders who is called to treat several casualties of drink including the victim of a slashing attack who is determined not to go to hospital.

Compilation: For six months we travelled the length and breadth of the UK, lifting the lid on Britain's binge drinking epidemic. From students to racing toffs, binge drinking has no class barrier. Tonight on Booze Britain we revisit some of the worst offenders, the most bizarre drinking habits, from the daft to the down right dangerous. And the clean up operation, as we follow the emergency services across the country dealing with the effects of excessive drinking.

Compilation: Some six million people in this country binge drink every week. We've travelled across Britain for three months going out on the town with some of the UK's biggest boozers. We've also been with the emergency services, from the police on the beat, to the paramedics dealing with the messy aftermath of the UK's binge drinking epidemic. Tonight on Booze Britain, in the second of our compilations, we'll be digging out some of the most memorable moments of the series.