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2013

Park Street gangrape: TMC MP accuses woman of being sex worker »

Mississippi authorities work on leads in stripper case »

The stripper fighting for life after falling off balcony while attempting tricky lap dance move »

Brothel worker stole cash from boss »

Licensing hearing for Consett lap dance club »

Stripper Assaulted Two Strangers as part of a Performance Art Piece »

'P.O.P.' Documentary Strips Down Stripper Stereotypes »

Brazilian sex worker’s group offers prostitutes English lessons ahead of World Cup »

Texas Legislator Proposes Stripper Licensing »

Stripper: Club Manager Demanded Sexual Favors »

Former Glasgow lap-dancing club in hot water for keeping inadequate finance records »

Stripper who fell from balcony at Christie's Cabaret dies »

Tamworth lap dance club owner faces arrest over alleged licence breaches »

Lap dancing club Red Velvet in Consett has drinks licence revoked »

Stripper says Brooklyn Net Andray Blatche watched alleged sexual assault at hotel »

Girl, 16, 'chose' to be stripper, defence argues »

Sex worker murdered »

Adult Entertainment Industry Files Suit Challenging Measure B »

SASOD welcomes police arrests in killing of gay sex worker; reiterates need for law reform »

Consett lap dancing club may be closed down »

Ex-stripper defiant over ruling she was self-employed »

Playboy Fined in U.K. for Failing to Block Children From Hardcore Pornography »

California middle school teacher, who appeared in pornography, loses appeal »

Houston Chronicle reporter fired for stripper gig lands new journalism job »

Murdered sex worker for burial today »

Cops detain man over sex worker’s murder »

The lap dancer quashed by the MOO impediment »

2 Girls + 1 Cup lands producer 4 years jail. But why? »

Sex worker accused of pawning niece »

16-yr-old sex worker duped by ‘client’, undergoes tubectomy »

Israel: Anti-pornography party drops out of elections »

Sex worker bags six-year jail term for killing client »

Lapdancing survey costs £118,000 and finds schools and striptease clubs don't mix »

Sex worker battered in street »

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The boss of a lapdancing club which has been hit by criticism after it was forced to apply for a new licence has hit back at those who claim his business is “not appropriate”.

Timothy Roidl, who runs TR Leisure, said his venue Players, on the corner of Printing Office Street and Cleveland Street, Doncaster, was “not seedy or sordid” and had a loyal client base. Mr Roidl and his club are at the centre of controversy after Doncaster Council introduced new measures under the Policing and Crime Act 2009, obliging the venue to apply for a Sex Establishment Licence.

As the Yorkshire Post reported yesterday, the new application has resulted in a petition from local businesses and a letter from a local church minister, opposing the licence and calling for the club to close. Since it opened in October 2006 Players has been operating under a standard alcohol licence and Mr Roidl said the new licence would not mean the venue would change what it did at all.

He added: “I think the term sex establishment licence scares people and they now think its going to be something that it isn’t and that it is going to change from what it did before. There isn’t going to any change in what we are doing, and that is what we have been doing since we opened more than five years ago. The only change is that my bank balance is £9,000 lighter because I have had to get this licence from the council just so I can continue trading. We have good systems in place and, to be honest, 80 per cent of my takings come from drinking, not from the lapdancing. It’s not really a ‘gentlemen’s club’ type atmosphere. People’s perception of what the licence means seems to be wrong, and I want to reassure them if I can.”The licence will be discussed by members of Doncaster Council’s licensing committee which meets next week.