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It's there for all of us to see
TO all intents the shocking events unfolding on film appear real.
Youngsters cutting lines of cocaine and rubbing it into their gums.
Others, clearly under age, swigging vodka and lager on a street corner. Another chapter in the sorry story of broken Britain?
The images are in fact acted, according to the film's directors, though that makes them no less shocking.
And they have caused quite a stir in Hebden Bridge, where the film was made by enterprising A-level students who have more than achieved what they set out to do and highlighted the darker aspects of youth culture, teenage alienation and boredom.
The five-minute documentary called Town of Alcoholic Children, which the makers say is based on real events, is there for anyone to see on social networking website You Tube. It makes for uncomfortable viewing.
By their own admission local councillors are shocked at the film's contents. Why?
Only those who walk around with their eyes shut and the news stations on mute, might have an excuse to react in such a way.
Woken from their reverie and reminded of a sub-culture that exists under their noses, the council will now "crystalise" plans to create a Youth Working Group.
Quite what that will achieve, only time will tell.
Drug-taking and binge drinking among teenagers is an escalating national problem that should be at the top of the political agenda from central government to town councils.
Is it not a rebuke to us all that it takes an exam project, which also achieved the highest grade, to galvanise people into action?
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