CONCERNS have been raised after a second club in Leamington Old Town applied for a license to provide 'sexual entertainment' throughout the week.
Amara, a nightclub in Court Street, is pushing for the 'sexual entertainment venue' license, which would allow it to offer lap dancing and other shows at any time between 7.30pm to 3am Sunday to Thursday and until 4am on Fridays and Saturdays.
It comes just weeks after Shades club, in nearby High Street, revealed it was trying again to get the same license, having been refused in last June.
Under the Policing and Crime Act 2009 all premises such as Shades and Amara were re-classed as 'sexual entertainment venues' and had to apply for a new licence, failure to secure it meaning they can only provide 'adult entertainment' 11 times a year and no more than once per month.
The Shades application will be heard by Warwick District Council's licensing panel at Leamington town hall at 10am on Thursday, March 15.
A councillor campaigning against sex clubs in Tower Hamlets has been short-listed for a prestigious national award for her work in the community.
Rania Khan, aged 29, is a finalist in the Young Councillor of the Year category for the C’llr Achievement Awards run by national think thank the Local Government Information Unit.
She was first elected, aged 23, in 2006, as a candidate for the Respect Party, making her one of the first woman councillors in the country.
The Muslim councillor who has always represented Bromley-By-Bow later defected to New Labour and more recently became an independent councillor. She is considered a close ally of Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman, who nominated her for the award.
Recently she has played a leading role in a campaign to change national legislation on lap dancing clubs by fighting for greater powers for councils to grant licences to sex establishments.
The 20-year-old star will portray a college graduate who ends up working in an adult shop in forthcoming black comedy Adult World.
And Roberts, who recently deferred her studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York to make more movies, admits she relates to her character's struggle.
She tells Usa Today, "It's a quirky coming-of-age story. My character is very smart, but the economy is very bad. So she works at a porn store.