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The team at Minx in Gloucester is planning a chain of clubs

Industry veteran Alan Whitehead and the team at Minx in Gloucester {where incidentally the council is not bothering at all with the new law} are looking to use the current uncertainty over licenses to create a new chain of clubs using their current ...

12th May 2011

Thurst Lodge has had it’s license taken away

Christian fundamentalists at the nearby church were celebrating the fact that the “Thurst Lodge” {Oxford’s only club} has had it’s license taken away using the idiotic new law . The owners Greene King are going for a judicial review as the ...

12th April 2011

The risqué burlesque style New York cabaret The Box is opening in London

The risqué burlesque style New York cabaret “The Box” which has been a big hit with trendies over the pond for the last couple of years is opening a London branch at the old Raymond’s Reviewbar site in Soho which has had a variety of uses ...

12th March 2011

A raid looking for illegal immigrants at Soho’s Sunset Strip

Further confirmation of the complete nonsense talked by the likes of Object on lap dancing clubs came in January when Manchester Police released FOI information about their call outs to licensed premises in the city centre during 2010. ...

12th February 2011

Seventh Heaven club in Kings Lynn and the Honey club in Solihull are applying for late night licenses

More and more councils are declaring their hand on the idiot Harperson law that is being introduced. Most London boroughs like Camden and Islington seem to be saying that they will grant the new licenses to existing clubs but not to any ...

3rd December 2010

Bouree Rooms and the Cyclone club in Birmingham got their licenses

Both the “Bouree Rooms” and the “Cyclone” club in Birmingham mentioned last month got their licenses at the beginning of October and brings the number of clubs in the centre of that city up to 12 . I understand that one of the national ...

3rd November 2010

Research showed that nearly 75% of strip dancers were happy in the job

Research done by Dr Teela Saunders of Leeds University involving interviews with over 300 dancers nationwide showed that nearly 75% of dancers were happy in the job and were attracted by the money and the relative freedom of being self employed. ...

3rd October 2010

Job centres can no longer carry adverts for vacancies as lap dancers or strippers.

The coalition minister involved, the gaff prone Chris Grayling, has decreed that Job centres can no longer carry adverts for vacancies as lap dancers or strippers. The bizarre logic being that it may put pressure on the unemployed to take “sex ...

3rd September 2010

Landlady of the Queen Anne pub in Vauxhall murdered

Denise D’Courtenay who has been landlady of the Queen Anne pub in Vauxhall for over 30 years was murdered while on holiday in the Dominican Republic at the end of July. The Queen Anne was for many years the only strip pub south of the ...

3rd August 2010

Glasgow council’s attempt to remove the license for Seventh Heaven was turned down

Glasgow council’s attempt to remove the license for the Seventh Heaven club because of a very non explicit flyer was turned down and branded “absurd” by the Sheriff in a court judgement . Another triumph for “crackpot” Coleman who has ...

3rd July 2010