The 17-year-old girl who drinks a bottle of vodka and eight cans of beer EVERY day (info)

A 17-year-old girl who drinks a litre of vodka and eight cans of beer every day has admitted spending most of her £47-a-week benefits on alcohol.

Jamie-Lee Day claims that she would rather buy vodka than food and boasts 'she can drink absinthe like water'.

Her shocking case comes a new study showed that binge drinking among women has more than doubled in eight years.

It found that 15 per cent of women regularly consume twice the state-approved safe limit.

Jamie-Lee and her mother Meryl. The 17-year-old has admitted drinking at least a bottle of spirits every day

Jamie-Lee, from South Wales, has been involved in a string of violent brawls while drunk and gave up a course in business admin because of her drinking.

She said: 'I do feel guilty, but I need booze to get through life and would rather buy vodka than food.

'My mum worries, so she helps with food shopping and bills, leaving me cash for dr