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Tue 01 Jan 2007Off-licences warn of price link to alcohol abuseThe off-licence trade has accused the Government of encouraging alcohol abuse by causing a flood of cheap alcohol into the shops.The chairman of the National Off-Licence Association, Jim McCabe, said yesterday that in failing to exclude alcohol as part of the ban on below-cost selling of grocery goods, the Government had acted in a "grossly irresponsible" manner.