Fake vodka trend leads to more vision damage

Further sales of illegal bootleg vodka have left drinkers suffering with blurred vision and Trading Standards officers with a headache of their own.

The Trading Standards Institute has reported an increase in seized illicit and counterfeit alcohol, which can be harmful to vision.

A Sheffield University student this week featured on the BBC Inside Out programme, reporting blurred vision and some loss of peripheral vision after drinking what turned out to be fake vodka.

Trading Standards Institute chief executive Ron Gainsford said: 'We, at Trading Standards Institute, are very concerned about this trend in the availability of fake alcohol - it is not just about false bargains counterfeit spirits and wine could be lethal.