Teenagers with hearing difficulties are being kept busy during the summer holidays with the launch of the InfoZone bus.

The converted double-decker bus has been turned into a drop-in centre for people aged 14 to 25, providing information and advice, and a place to meet. Workshops are being run on various subjects, including drugs and sexual health.

The scheme, run by the county's largest youth work charity, the Oxfordshire Association for Young People, was launched from Blenheim Palace last year to cater for youths across the county. Every Monday and Tuesday rural villages are visited. This is the first time the InfoZone team has tried to include deaf people in Oxford.

The bus, parks at the Shotover Centre, Horspath Road between 10.30am and 12.30pm every Wednesday, to provide youngsters with hearing difficulties with a place to meet and to help enrich their lives.

Project co-ordinator Tony White said: "This is an exciting and innovative project designed specially to meet the needs of young people who are deaf and hard of hearing.

"So far it has been received very well. We want to reach as many disadvantaged groups who might benefit from these workshops.

"There are no special schools for the deaf in Oxfordshire and resources for young people who are hard of hearing are incredibly limited."