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DailyMailA woman has become the first person to be barred from all licensed premises in England and Wales under a drinking banning order. Laura Hall, 20, is also banned from all off-licences under the terms of the order imposed at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court in Worcestershire. West Mercia Police said the order against Hall, formerly from the Stoke Heath area of Bromsgrove, would last until April 2012 and prohibit her from consuming or purchasing alcohol in pubs. Hall has also been banned from drinking in nightclubs, membership clubs or hotels, and from purchasing alcohol in shops and off licences. Sergeant David Roberts, from Bromsgrove police, said: ‘While there have been some drinking banning orders issued already since their introduction last year, this is the first to be issued on a nationwide basis and it effectively bans Laura Hall from drinking or buying alcohol in any licensed premises across the whole of England and Wales.

Free Laura Hall! Free Laura Hall! Jesus Christ, looks like London gave this chick the “Pete Rose” treatment here. I mean her picture’s going to be in every pub in the UK now. What is she, Whitey Bulger? This is crazy. Girl goes to bar, girl gets drunk at bar, girl gets banned from every bar in England. Something must have happened in between the 2nd and 3rd statements there, clearly. British chicks, let this be a lesson. Get too drunk, end up like Laura Hall. Don’t get drunk enough, end up sober and depressed. That’s a fine line to walk.