A YOUNG woman vomits in the gutter in an ugly but momentary pause during a boozy night out.
On another street, in a different city, another woman who is too drunk to stand is helped into an ambulance.
She doesn’t know where she is, but she could be in any town in Binge Britain as the “fairer” sex go out to play.
To see the shocking pictures, click on the slideshow below.
Figures revealed last week show that over the past five years, arrests of women for being drunk and disorderly have soared by up to 1,100 PER CENT in parts of the UK.
Don Shenker, of the charity Alcohol Concern, said: “There is no doubt the number of women binge-drinking has gone up – they are following the example of young men. The trouble is, women’s bodies can’t handle large amounts of alcohol.”
On Saturday we sent reporters out to town and city centres around the country to witness girls on the lash over the Bank Holiday weekend.
They did not have to look far to find scenes of drunken women out of control, making themselves ill and putting themselves in danger.
NEWCASTLEBy 10.55pm bride-to-be Steph Walker’s hen night is taking its toll.
“I’m p***ed out of my f***ing head,” the 28-year-old declares, as she sits unsteadily on a bench.
“I’ve been drinking all night – but I still have some room for a few more.”
Meanwhile 19-year-old nursery nurse Kayleigh Kennedy is slumped on the floor outside the Blu Bamboo club. Pal Lindsey Nicholson, 24, says she has had six double vodkas but insists: “We’re good girls. We never get into trouble. We stay out of the way.”
A pretty 18-year-old blonde, who only gives her name as Rachel, is looking the worse for wear by 11.30pm as she stands in the city’s Bigg Market.
The teenager supports herself with one hand against an office window as she vomits on the pavement while her pal strokes her head.
Nearby, Gemma, 18, has lost her taxi fare and is trying to get some cash.
She does herself no favours as she tells passers-by: “If you give me a fiver I’ll show you my t*ts.”
GLASGOWReveller Lauren McNiven and ten of her mates have hit the town to celebrate a friend’s birthday.
They started drinking at 7pm and usually stay out until 3.30am, she says.
Student Lauren, 21, who is about to qualify as a primary school teacher, adds that they never get into trouble but she admits she will have up to 11 glasses of wine or spirits on a night out.
At around midnight, barefoot teenagers in colourful dresses lurch from bar to nightclub along Sauchiehall Street and Queen Street, narrowly avoiding shards of glass strewn along the pavement.
Police flood into the area to head off trouble before it starts.
Birmingham ... girl looks after collapsed pal
BRISTOLA teenage birthday girl in a PVC SuperGirl outfit is shouting obscenities at fellow revellers and demanding that strangers buy her drinks. The rest of her fancy dress-clad group drag her into the next available bar to take advantage of discounted drinks.
Meanwhile at half past midnight on the riverfront a group of binge-drinking girls in Grecian togas are arguing drunkenly about where their final destination of the night should be.
Another girl slumps in the doorway of a takeaway, spreading her legs in her short skirt to gain attention from passing males.
Later, a pretty redhead momentarily leaves her pals in search of a quiet spot to lean over railings and vomit. Minutes later she calmly rejoins her friends to enter a club and continue drinking.
At 2.20am two girls kick off their shoes and, despite the broken glass covering the pavement, they take it in turns to give each other piggy-back rides down the street as they search for a taxi to take them home.
BIRMINGHAMIt’s only 11pm but the city’s Broad Street is already echoing to police and ambulance sirens as unruly women fight outside the bars and clubs.
A girl, already the worse for wear from alcopops, stumbles across the street wearing only one shoe, telling a pal: “I’m wasted. I want to go home.”
Her equally drunken mate is holding on to a street lamp as she throws up the remains of the “buy-one-get-one-free” cocktails. An hour later a couple are rowing loudly in a nightclub entrance because the man has grabbed her friend’s bum.
As the woman continues to swear and put her fist in her partner’s face, it takes three cops to restrain her.
A girl outside a row of fast food shops takes a bite out of her kebab, then vomits on the pavement, holding on to a pole to keep herself upright.
MANCHESTERWith hair plastered to her face and a pool of vomit on the pavement, another woman falls victim to our booze culture.
It takes two paramedics, lifting her by each arm, to carry her to an ambulance.
Nearby, close to the city’s MEN Arena, another girl is slumped in a doorway, her head stuck between her legs as she tries in vain to sober up.
Her pals try to flag down passing taxis in a bid to get her off the street, then drag her to her feet and stagger off down the road in search of a lift home.
CARDIFFTwo girls struggle to support their drunken friend as she falls into fencing, flashing her bum as she stumbles.
In nearby St Mary Street, outside Squares nightclub, a young woman lies on the pavement, face-down in her own vomit after taking advantage of too many cut-price drinks.
Paramedics fuss around the girl, clearing her airways before lifting her on to a stretcher and into an ambulance.
At 1.45am the night ends for another teenager as her concerned parents arrive to carry her home.
Minutes earlier she had been sprawled on the pavement outside the same club as the girl who had needed hospital treatment. For her too, the night of “fun” is over.
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