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A man preparing dinner for his daughter’s birthday BBQ says he was “shocked” when he found a breaded chicken head mixed in amongst the bag of frozen chicken he had purchased. Because, you know, gnawing on the bird’s rib cage is just fine, but finding a HEAD?! Oh, the horrors!

Salesman Peter, 39, was about to grill the defrosted wings at the bash for nine-year-old Georgia when he glimpsed a beak.

The dad, of Bacup, Lancs, said yesterday: “The kids were horrified.”

He took the head back to his local Asda in Rawtenstall.

Store chiefs gave him £50 of beer and wine to compensate and promised to investigate.

Be sure to click through to the story to see how “horrified” his daughter is as she’s *holding* the chicken head in her hands.

Not to get all judgmental, but how on earth does a mother not notice when their young teen is getting completely hammered on a daily basis?

She started drinking heavily at the age of 12. And by the time she was 14, Natasha Farnham was told by shocked doctors that she was the youngest patient they had ever seen with liver failure caused by alcohol abuse.

She was drinking up to six bottles of wine a day - and now, at 18, she has been warned that if she drinks again she will die.

Her descent into a life of ruined health and petty crime again illustrates the perils of cheap alcohol and the culture of binge-drinking that grips Britain.

The teenager wants to tell her story to warn others of the dangers.

Stating that Britain has reached a “tipping point” (or is it “tippling point”? Hey-oh!) Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has announced a new plan that will punish parents for their under-age kids’ alcohol indulgence. Ranging from community service to fines of up to 1,000 pounds, Smith is looking to crackdown on parents who won’t take responsibility for their children. Too bad they couldn’t just do that on their own without the government having to get involved.

“If we can do more to bring home to parents the implications of giving children drink straight from the fridge or the cupboard, I want to see that happen,” [Smith] said.

The Home Secretary said that almost half the alcohol obtained by teenagers has “come from the family home” and that teenage binge drinking was now a “cause for concern”.

She added that young adult binge drinkers had an “appetite for destruction” and announced that the Government had commissioned a firm of auditors to review the sale of alcohol.