WITNEY youngsters are celebrating after their youth centre received a £75,000 boost.

The Comic Relief cash will fund a full-time youth worker at Base 33, High Street, and projects to tackle alcohol misuse for the next three years. The centre runs a range of services, including support for teenage mothers, schemes to help youngsters get into work and drop-in services.

Base 33 youth worker Mark Bennett said: “The image that Witney is a leafy green town and that nothing happens here is not true.

“A lot of the time people are bored and do not have much to do and they turn to alcohol or drugs. There is a huge amount of substance misuse.

“This money really will make a difference to us.”