of alcohol in scotland. an increase of alcohol in scotland. an increase of 31 on the year before. national records for scotland, which puts out these figures, says that in terms of these figures, says that in terms of the death rate, the number dying per 100,000, that is not a significant increase year on year. at one of the things that people will look at in these figures, the number of deaths of men has stayed the same, the number of deaths of women has increased, by 31, to 440. that possibly suggests may be an alarming trend in terms of problem drinking for women. trend in terms of problem drinking forwomen. 0ne trend in terms of problem drinking for women. one of the other things i think people will look at is comparing these alcohol figures with the deaths related to drugs, which came out last week. the figure for alcohol is now higher than it is for drugs. that will be a concern. critics of the scottish cup and may say that they have spent a lot of