Student Lorraine Wing is giving up some of her holiday to paint a room at a village hall. Lorraine, 20, has been decorating an annexe at Bletchingdon village hall to help gain the Queen's Guide award.

"The ceiling was the worst bit. The walls are going to be easier. I am doing the painting for the community work part of the award," said Lorraine, of St Giles, Bletchingdon. She is a leader with a guide company in Winchester where she is studying archaeology at King Alfred's College.

Lorraine was in the Bletchingdon brownies, then the Tackley guides and the ranger guides at Yarnton. Her father, Brian, chairman of Bletchingdon village hall committee, thought the job would suit Lorraine's work for the award and the committee supplied the materials.