REDDITCH pubs could be the setting for men's sexual health clinics after a startling report revealed 97 per cent of visitors to town family planning clinics were women.

A review of the sexual health of men aged under 25 has been carried out by Worcestershire Health Authority and Redditch was the first town to take part.

It revealed twice as many women as men were diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections at the Alexandra Hospital's Arrowside Clinic.

But Redditch men aged between 20 and 25 have the largest number of new infections and rates of chlamydia and gonorrhoea are higher than the average for the West Midlands.

The health authority's assistant director of public health, Alec Kendall, said: "A project to launch men's health clinics in pubs could well be launched in Redditch but it is down to Redditch Primary Care Group.

"You have to get the message about sexual health across and take it to where young men go and they go to the pubs, so that is a good place to start."

Mr Kendall said Sunday football leagues were also a good place to launch clinics and Redditch was the ideal place for them.

He said: "Redditch has a number of football leagues and we will look at sexual health with other men's health issues and it will be giving men the opportunity to talk about the things important to them."

He added: "I can see these initiatives taking place in Redditch before long."