POLICE are to ask for a controversial lap dancing club to be closed following a drugs raid at the weekend.
An emergency hearing is to be held tomorrow (TUESDAY) morning at which Durham Constabulary will apply to suspend the license of Red Velvet, in Consett.
Councillors will be asked to vote on a temporary suspension of the club’s license pending a full hearing within four weeks.
The application follows a raid in the early hours of Saturday morning at the premises, County Durham’s only lap dancing club which opened in 2007.
Seven men were arrested during the raid on suspicion of drug dealing. Two have since been cautioned for drug offences, two have been released on bail pending further inquiries and a further three were released without charge.
The meeting of Durham County Council’s statutory licensing sub-committee will take place at Chester-le-Street Civic Centre at 10am.
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