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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/boy-voices-fears-over-service-cuts.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Nicky Wishart, 12, before joining a rally in Solihull campaigning against cuts to youth services" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-boy-voices-fears-over-service-cuts.jpg" alt="Nicky Wishart, 12, before joining a rally in Solihull campaigning against cuts to youth services"/></a></p>
<p>A 12-year-old from Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s constituency has spoken of his concerns over the threatened closure of youth services in his area as he joined a huge rally against proposed cuts.</p>
<p>Nicky Wishart was among around 1,000 people at the rally in Solihull, staged by Unite to launch a campaign against &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; cuts to youth services.</p>
<p>Unite warned that one in four youth services such as volunteering projects and youth clubs in England faced spending cuts of up to 30%.</p>
<p>Young people arrived from across the country for the rally, congregating at the Renewal Conference Centre in Solihull.</p>
<p>Grasping banners and wearing t-shirts with slogans protesting against youth service cuts, they took part in protest poster-making workshops, protest song workshops, and listened to speeches from a range of speakers.</p>
<p>Speaking ahead of the rally, Nicky Wishart from Eynsham in Mr Cameron&#8217;s Witney constituency, said: &#8220;I use the Eynsham youth club three times a week.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s going to be closed if the cuts go ahead as planned. I use it three times a week, which is a lot in a five-day working week. If it&#8217;s closed I won&#8217;t do anything &#8211; sit indoors, or hang around on the streets.</p>
<p>&#8220;I also use the local library which is also threatened with closure. I&#8217;ve got two younger brothers, one was born last Friday and one who is three, and both of them are never going to have a chance to know what a youth club is like.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nicky, who was due to give a speech to the gathered crowd, said he was not sure what the effect of the rally would be.</p>
<p>But he said they would continue to campaign to get the message across, along with others across the country &#8211; his 14-year-old sister Beth was speaking at a similar rally in Oxford.</p>
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