A former nightspot in Banbury is to become a lap-dancing club.

Cherwell District Council has given Brackley man Ashley Brown planning permission to convert the old Churchill's premises, above shops in Broad Street, into 'a gentleman's club' which will feature striptease, pole dancing, and rooms where strippers can dance naked for clients.

Councillor Eric Heath, chairman of the council's licensing committee, said there had been no objections to the application - for a 'gentleman's club' - after the plans had been publicly displayed.