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BRITISH girls are among the most violent in the world, according to new research.
England and Scotland came fifth and sixth in a league table showing fighting among 11 to 15-year-old schoolgirls in 35 developed countries. In both countries, almost a third had been involved in at least one physical fight in the previous year. Concerns have been raised that Britain's "ladette" culture is fuelling such problems. Dr Candace Currie, the director of the child and adolescent health research unit at Edinburgh University and co-author of the report, said the high level of fighting among girls in the UK worried her.