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Naked Students Run Amok In 'Horrendous' Community Maze, Aberystwyth

community maze dubbed a waste of taxpayers' cash is to be locked at night after dozens of naked revellers were caught using it as a party venue.

The novelty "labyrinth" in the seaside resort of Aberystwyth, West Wales, was dismissed as "horrendous" by some locals even before it opened in the summer.

Built at the cost of £5,000 on an unused green at a bowling club in Queen's Road, it has previously been likened to a military memorial in the Somme.

Consisting of 720 separate waist-high wooden posts linked by one mile of rope threaded between them, getting lost is not an option.

Getting naked, however, is another matter, according to one resident who wrote to the town council to complain in a letter read out at its last meeting.

It claimed up to 50 drunken revellers, believed to be university students, were caught running around inside the maze in a naked or semi-naked state.

Their swearing and drunken antics lasted for about 30 minutes, woke his children, and prompted him to call the police, who dispersed the group.

Town councillor Ceredig Davies confirmed that the council was taking action to lock the labyrinth as a result of the letter.

"The town council received a letter from a resident who lives in the proximity of the labyrinth and who was not happy it was not locked at night." the councillor said.

"He stated that on one particular occasion there were people running around inside it - starkers."

He added: "As a university town, we do experience an element of young people enjoying themselves in high spirits.