A FRESH cohort of former addicts who have turned their lives around at a Blackbird Leys hub will 'graduate' in front of friends and family on Monday.

The event at the MYOX4 centre in Knights Road will celebrate the end of a 14-week abstinence-based recovery programme for drug and alcohol addiction.

Loved ones and members of the community will be present as well as local councillors and PCSOs.

MYOX4 opened in June 2015 on the site of a former tattoo parlour and offers help with all forms of substance abuse as well as sport and wellbeing programmes.