MAGISTRATES ordered a man to do 250 hours of unpaid work for carrying out a racially aggravated assault in an Old Town nightclub.

Danny Western, 22, of Kempsford, near Fairford, was also ordered to pay his victim £200 compensation.

The court heard the incident happened in Tree Nightclub in Hoopers Place, on June 25.

Western admitted the charge along with a second allegation of using threatening behaviour towards the same man.

At the hearing in Swindon on November 15 the bench told him he would have been sentenced to 200 hours but an extra 50 had been added because of the racial element of the offence.

As well as a 12-month community order Western was instructed to pay £170 towards court costs and victim services.