"BINGE" drinkers who end up in custody after a night out will be offered help as part of a new scheme being launched tomorrow.

Wyre Forest Community Safety Partnership has unveiled the project after revealing 46 per cent of people responding to a residents' survey in some areas of the district thought drunk adults were a nuisance.

And it has been predicted those who are referred to the Hereford and Worcester Advisory Service on Alcohol will be 50 per cent less likely to re-offend.

From this weekend, if someone is arrested and alcohol is known to be a factor, their details will be faxed to the HWASA and magistrates, while referral is also a condition of bail.

The service offers advice on alcohol and a confidential consumption assessment and can also help in other areas of "potential need" such as housing, employment and education.

It will be up to the individual to contact the HWASA and attend the first session at the advice centre in Church Street, Kidderminster.

Wyre Forest Primary Care Trust, Kidderminster Police, and the University of Central England, which is evaluating the scheme, are the other bodies involved.

Christina Attwood, of the PCT, said: "The expectations are that those contacting the service are 50 per cent less likely to re-offend.

"This will have significant benefits in terms of both health and crime and disorder."

A spokesman for the community safety partnership said: "The intention is to help combat "binge" drinkers who go out on an evening, have too much to drink and get involved in, for example, a fight, disorderly behaviour or causing criminal damage."

Research has shown 78 per cent of assaults and 88 per cent of criminal damage incidents are alcohol-related.