TEENAGERS seeking a good night out will soon be given a choice: Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Macclesfield or Knutsford.

From next month youngsters living in villages will be able to e-mail their vote for the town where they would most like to spend their Saturday night.

A door-to-door microbus will then pick them up and drop them off at the town most of them want to visit.

Cheshire Rural Transport Partnership's idea is partly designed to stop them mithering their parents for a lift.

"The whole idea is to prevent social exclusion for young people living in rural areas," said a spokesman on Friday.

"At the moment they are relying on parents or taxis which can be expensive so this is a solution to that."

The pilot scheme will see 12-seater coaches, used as social service transport during the week, transformed into buses for the young at the weekend.

During the day there will be an hourly service through villages, including Chelford, picking up passengers who have pre-booked on-line.

Cheshire County Council has supplied the buses, but the project is largely funded by the Government.

Last week the national knowhere guide to gigs, festivals and events in Knutsford had nothing listed.

"Perhaps, you'd like to add some," it asked.

But other fans of the non-conventional tourist website insisted there were 'loads' of restaurants, 'loads' of pubs and 'loads' of caf and coffee shops

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"It's what Knutsford is known for," said one.

And on Friday Ben Massam, manager at Knutsford Wine Bar in King Street, said the town had a lot to offer 18 and 19-year-olds.

"We attract a crowd of all ages, but the one drawback for young people is there is nothing to do after 11pm," he said.

"We are taken over here by Merseyside at night because Knutsford's reputation has spread as far as Liverpool. They leave the cities because they are looking for the smaller town feel."

Teenagers wanting to sample Knutsford's Saturday nightlife will have to pay £10 a month to join the scheme.

They will then have to e-mail their choice on Wednesday nights and hope that most of the other teenagers agree that Knutsford is the place to be.

Sarah Percival, manager at Pizza Express, said the town's wealth of restaurants and pubs would prove a big draw.

"You can come in and have a pizza and then go to a pub for a drink," she said.

"The atmosphere is quite laid back and we don't have a dress code because that can put teenagers off."

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