Angry residents are calling on environmental officers and police to crack down on noise and drunken hooligans from a pub.

Families in Lydalls Road, King Alfred Drive and Edinburgh Drive, Didcot, said garden walls were being smashed and they were kept awake by customers making their way home after discos at the Great Western Hotel.

They say problems escalate at weekends when the hotel, in Station Road, has a public entertainment licence until 1am. South Oxfordshire District Council said 15 complaints had been received about the noise from the Great Western disco, which was being monitored.

Earlier this year another popular nightspot, Broadways pub, was granted a licence until 2am at weekends, despite opposition and a petition from residents.

The district council's licensing sub committee said that the licence would be "reviewed" after six months because of local concern.

Insp Ian Beckett of Didcot Police said they were already concentrating "focus" patrols at weekends in and around the town centre, and were checking on young people leaving the Great Western, as well as Broadways.