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New drinking guidelines are 'not policy'

Advice dished out by government on how much people should be drinking is 'guidelines' and 'not policy'.

The Department of Health and Social Care has updated its guidelines in line with the UK. 

As a result the recommended number of units men should drink in a week has dropped down to 14 - in line with women for the first time. 

Public health strategist Dawn Henley says it's the first time an investigation into new evidence has been commissioned in more than 20 years:

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