DAVENTRY MP Chris Heaton-Harris will host a surgery next weekend.
Members of the public are welcome to come along and discuss any issues they have.
The surgery will be held at the Queen of hearts pub in Wimborne Place on Saturday, February 18, from 1pm till 2.30pm.
Abbey North councillors Chris Long, Gloria Edwards-Davidson and David Earles will also be there.
THE market day in Daventry on Friday has been cancelled.
The decision has been taken due to the bad weather with no market stalls on the High Street.
LONG Buckby Football Club has received a financial boost.
TalkTalk, the home phone, broadband and mobile provider, will sponsor the club for the next 12 months.
The funding provided will be used towards lighting for evening practice which will enable junior teams to train at the club.
Currently junior teams often have to be taken to other grounds for their practice sessions.
Glenn Botterill, manager at Long Buckby Football Club, said: “We are delighted with the support from TalkTalk which will enable us to purchase lights allowing the junior teams to practise at our club rather than having to use other facilities.
“We would like to thank TalkTalk for all of their help and support in helping us achieve our goals.”
Tristia Clarke, commercial director at TalkTalk, said they were proud to be supporting Long Buckby Football Club.
“They are at the heart of the community and we wish them every success with their endeavours both on and off the field over the coming months.”
A REVOLT in Parliament over Goverment support for wind turbines is being led by Daventry’s MP.
Chris Heaton-Harris took the lead in penning a letter to the Prime Minister outlining problems with subsidising onshore wind farms, and the problems local people have when trying to defeat planning applications.
His letter to David Cameron was signed by 104 other MPs.
Mr Heaton-Harris told the Daventry Express: “The letter says that we need to look at how much subsidy we give on shore wind turbines.
“We should withdraw the subsidy and use it to support other renewable technologies that have been proven to work.
“We need to amend the new National Planning Policy Framework so that the landscape and heritage aspects are taken into account when judging applications.
“We also need someone to tell the Planning Inspectorate that the views of local people should be paramount in their decisions.”
The letter made headline news in national newspapers over the weekend.
It follows in the wake of a series of wind farm applications for the Daventry area which were opposed by local people, rejected by Daventry District Council but given the go-ahead by an planning inspector on appeal.
There are currently plans for a dozen wind farms across the Daventry area, including Yelvertoft, Watford and Long Buckby.
Several have already been given approval, but only the DIRFT turbines are up and running – though these are only 88 metres tall, compared to the 125-metre height for most local planning applications.
Although the majority of people (101) signing the letter were Tory MPs – effectively rebelling against the Government’s line – there were other parties included.
Mr Heaton-Harris said: “There’s two Labour signatures, two Lib Dems and a DUP MP as well.
“It wasn’t hard to get that many signatures, and I could have gotten more but there was a deadline.
“There’s way more interest than 105, but some people aren’t keen to put their name to something yet.
“A parliamentary and national campaign is now coalescing and the strength of feeling is building.”
With love in the air this Valentine’s Day, Paddy McGuinness reveals what he’s learned about love and dating from his show Take Me Out, which continues on Saturdays on ITV1.
Paddy McGuinness must know a thing or two about love. Not only is he happily married to gorgeous model Christine Martin, but he’s the host of hit dating show Take Me Out.
The Saturday night show sees single men parade themselves in front of a panel of single girls who, on McGuinness’s order of ‘no likey, no lighty’, show their judgment of the men in question by switching off the light in front of them, or keeping it on.
When just two girls’ lights remain on, the man gets to chose his favourite between them, and the paired-off couple go on a date to the mystery ‘Island of Fernando’.
It’s a winning formula, and McGuinness is only too happy to share what it’s taught him about the dating game.
Be complimentary, not cocky
“I always tell the lads on the show, ‘Look, when you first come out, give the girls a little compliment, introduce yourself, and don’t be overly cocky’. It won’t matter if Brad Pitt walked out that lift, if the guy’s cocky the girls will just turn their lights off.
“If the lads on the show don’t get a date it must be because of something they’ve said, as we’ve never had a black-out on the first round, which is based purely on looks. If a lad gets through the first round I don’t think he’s bothered about getting blacked out after that. You can see them relax once they make it through the looks bit.”
Don’t bother with chat-up lines
“I’ve never been one for chat-up lines myself. I used to ask my mates to ask people out for me, I was always quite shy when it came to things like that, and I don’t think they work anyway.”
But don’t be too honest either
“If it was one of my mates on the pull I’d say, ‘Lie through your teeth’, because if you’re honest and say, ‘I like playing Xbox and drinking’ I don’t think the girls would like that. They don’t want to hear that, so don’t talk about Call Of Duty.”
Don’t rule out dating shows
“I’ve done dating shows myself. I went on a show called God’s Gift, me and my mates were 19 and we all went on.
“So when the lads come on Take Me Out I go, ‘Trust me, I’ve been there’. Our show is light-hearted, it’s a mixture of The Generation Game and Britain’s Got Talent but, primarily, it’s a dating show and that’s what we’re there for.
“When couples get together it makes you feel like, ‘Ooh, little pat on the back there!’”
If at first you don’t succeed...
“If you’re unlucky in love, you shouldn’t give up. Some of the romances which have come from the show haven’t been between people who were paired up on Take Me Out. People who didn’t go on a date on the show meet on the follow-up show The Gossip, and the beauty of Facebook is they get in touch afterwards and start seeing each other.”
Have a party trick
“We get our lads to show off a party trick to impress the girls. As boring as it sounds, my trick would be making mash.
“I think that would get all girls’ lights going off if I got a bag of potatoes and boiled them up and went, ‘Then you put this much salt in and a bit of butter and a bit of a cream’, but my wife likes it. She loves my Sunday dinners.”
True love is easy
“I were never a lad desperate to get married but it’s exactly like people say: You meet someone, you feel a click and for me, that were that, it just felt natural.”
Marriage doesn’t change anything
“There’s no difference once you get married, really. Apart from a ring on your finger, everything’s kind of as it was.”
Keep it simple
“Me and Christine don’t do big magazine spreads of our holidays together or anything like that. We are in love, and that’s why it works.”
Take Me Out’s success stories
Fabian and Kayleigh – he didn’t pick her on the show, but they have since got together (he contacted her via Facebook) and now they are engaged.
Dave and Adele – she had been unlucky in love (her ex-boyfriend Darren Day left her for Suzanne Shaw) but when she went on the show, romance blossomed. Dave actually picked Lucy on the show (over Adele in the final two) but he subsequently caught up with Adele and they are now together and talking about living together.
Simon and Natalie – he picked her on the show, and they had a terrible date which didn’t go well (they both clashed!) but they have now hooked up again and are an item.
Dan and Dawn – he picked her on the show and they’ve been together for a year.
Take Me Out continues on Saturdays on ITV1, with spin-off show The Gossip following straight after on ITV2
LAST week I allowed myself to be talked into serving myself at the checkout in Sainsbury’s by a young lady who then stood over me while I tried to pay for my goods.
The machine told me that there was an unknown object in the bagging area and I suggested that perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I hadn’t started yet – but the young lady explained that the machine couldn’t actually hear me.
So we started again and things went well before I placed a couple of bottles on non-alcoholic beer on the thing. The cashier in the machine explained that I needed clearance to buy the item and the real young lady stepped forward again and informed me that the machine could not recognise the difference between non alcoholic beer and alcoholic beer so that my age had to be checked by her.
I decided to look upon this as something of a compliment and offered the machine a DVD. The machine then emitted an alarm and the young lady moved in again, explaining that the DVD had a tag on it and had to be cleared by her.
As I returned to my car I discussed with myself the reason that Sainsbury’s had decided to install such a monstrosity and reached the conclusion that one sales person could run six machines thus saving the company the wages for five checkout people. More profit for the supermarket and high blood pressure for old folk like me.
I can never understand quite how this profit thing works. It seems these big stores are able to knock down the price of say, a three-piece suite, by 50 per cent throughout the year – so how much profit where they taking when it was sold at it’s original price? You can be sure that they aren’t giving anything away for nothing, so who is kidding who?
I suppose that in a world where executives can afford to hand back their annual bonus and still take home massive amounts of money – in some cases putting a large bank on a more even keel by making 20,000 odd employees redundant anything goes.
MANY a tale of broken hearts often occur around Valentine’s Day.
But this month the scene at Northampton International Raceway is more likely to be one of bent and broken cars.
The annual John Heynes Memorial Heartbreaker has become the biggest National Banger meeting of the season at the Brafield quarter mile.
The last four years have seen entries of more than 100 cars raced to destruction.
This year a similar entry is expected, including drivers and teams travelling from all over the UK, and some rare cars are expected as well.
The meeting is split into two classes of National Bangers, with the two litre class for cars with engines up to that size and Ford Mondeos the favourite, and the Unlimited class – where the bigger the car the better.
Bookings are currently flooding in and already more than 100 cars are scheduled to compete.
This will include the famous Bears team from the south coast on their first visit to Northampton.
Each class will contest several jam-packed races during the afternoon plus a Demolition Derby each – where the last car still going will be the winner.
Overall, it’s all shaping up to be a day of first class National Banger racing from the biggest stars of the sport.
Action gets under way on Sunday, February 12 at 1pm.
DONATE your unwanted football kits to a good cause.
That’s the message for football fans in the Daventry area.
The Evo-Stik League Southern has announced their partnership with KitAid, a charity that helps underprivileged children and adults in more than 30 countries across the world.
The campaign is encouraging people in the Daventry area to donate unwanted football kits now.
Football fans are being invited to drop off their old football shirts, shorts, boots, goal keeper gloves and shin pads at their local club where they will be packaged up by the Evo-Stik League and sent to KitAid.
Daventry Town and Woodford United will be accepting donations until the end of the 2011-12 season.
Ken Turner, league chairman, said: “As a league, we know only too well the importance of giving young people and adults opportunities through sport so we’re appealing to local people to consider donating their old kit to a really worthy cause.
“Just give it a wash and drop it off at Daventry Town or Woodford United and we’ll do the rest.”
KitAid is a registered charity that collects and sends unwanted football kit to children and adults who love football but live in some of the poorest parts of the world.
The charity has sent more than 150,000 kits to children and adults worldwide.
Derrick Williams, KitAid’s founder, said: “We’re delighted that the Evo-Stik League Southern is working with us to give our campaign a boost and with such a strong fan base, I am sure plenty of kit will be donated.
“We see first hand the difference that these donations can make to young people in some of the poorest parts of the world and would like to thank the people of the Daventry area in advance for getting involved.”
A PETROL station in Daventry is set to be transformed along with new retail units, creating jobs.
The Junction Services garage, at the corner of London Road and Western Avenue will get a new Budgens and a Subway sandwich shop, plus an upgraded forecourt.
The petrol station is owned by the Simon Smith Group.
Susie Hawkins, from the company, said: “We bought the patrol station a few years ago, when it was still an Esso forecourt.
“We switched over to Shell after a year or so when the contract ran out.
“It was always our plans to upgrade it, and we got planning permission to do so last year.
“The delay has just been down to getting all the plans in place and sorting everything out.”
The firm hopes the new convenience store and sandwich shop will be a hit with both motorists and nearby residents, plus businesses on the neighbouring industrial estates.
The new buildings and canopy will be in a very modern style.
Ms Hawkins said: “The Budgens will be 2,000 sq ft, and the Subway will be 800 sq ft, but they’ll have the same frontage and door.
“People will walk into the main building and go straight into the shop, but they can turn and go into the Subway unit.
“We’re a small family business from Gloucestershire and we already have a few petrol stations.
“This type of thing has worked well for us in the past – although this will be our first Subway – so we wanted to do it in Daventry as well.
“We think it’ll bring something new to the town that people will want.”
The company is now advertising for a manager for the site. The plan is to redevelop the forecourt and reopen it in the summer.
The plans show the new building and forecourt would keep approximately the same alignment as they have now, but with totally redesigned access from the two main roads.
There will still be a car wash, but moved to a new location.
PLAYERS of Willoughby Cricket Club are reminded pre-season nets and training starts this Sunday (February 12).
This opening session will be for senior and U15 players only, at the Rugby Campus of Warwickshire College, on Technology Drive in Rugby, from 12.15 to 1.30pm.
The U11s and U13s sessions start the week after – Sunday 19th – same time and venue.
New players are always welcome to join and are encouraged to come along for this and all future sessions.
For further details, telephone Karl on 01788 542441 or Martin on 01788 334850, or visit the website for details – www.willoughbycc.org.uk
A NEW Government deal will help secure the long-term future of post offices in the Daventry district, MP Chris Heaton-Harris has said.
At present plans are in place for some parts of the Royal Mail to be privatised which could put post office’s income in jeopardy.
However, the Government has said it will be providing £1.34 billion of funding to modernise the post office network.
Mr Heaton-Harris said: “This move will be putting quite a lot of Government business into post offices and should.
“It doesn’t guarantee that there won’t be any closures but with the business being put in post offices should be able to operate a healthy business.”
A PRIMARY school will be built on Daventry’s new Monksmoor estate, the county council has confirmed.
Last month it was announced that Crest Nicholson had come to an agreement to build 1,000 homes at the site on the edge of Daventry.
Concerns were raised over school places, particularly after promises that a new school would be built on the nearby Middlemore estate were never fulfilled.
But Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) has this week confirmed that plans are in place for a new school when ‘occupancy levels on the Monksmoor development make it feasible’.
The site will also have shops and leisure facilities.
NCC councillor Chris Long, who represents Daventry West, said: “As far as I’m concerned there should have been a school in that area for a long time.
“I campaigned for a long time to get a school built on Middlemore but unfortunately that was unsuccessful.
“If a school is built on Monksmoor it’s not a solution to that problem.
“But it will make life a lot easier for a lot of parents as currently they have to trek across town to the Grange and sometimes even the Southbrook to get their children to school.
“I would very much welcome this and think it’s something that will be needed if these houses are built.”
The county council said the school will be a ‘two-form entry’ which means each year group will have two classes.
A spokesman for NCC added: “We are committed to opening a primary school on Monksmoor when occupancy levels on the development make it feasible.”
TALENTED gymnasts have scooped a bumper amount of medals in their annual club championships.
More than 200 Daventry Phoenix gymnasts competed with 80 medals handed out along with certificates of merit and awards for effort, commitment and most improved.
In the General Gymnasts, who range from four-13 years old, all the gymnasts displayed an impressive range of skills and gave outstanding performances for children so young.
The senior General Gymnasts also displayed a superb level of gymnastics and showed maturity throughout their routines.
Also competing was the General Gymnastics Squad and the Women’s Artistic squads.
These gymnasts train many hours per week, dedicating their lives to gymnastics and this really shone through on the day.
Thanks were expressed to the parents’ support group who worked tirelessly to help make the weekend run smoothly.
Any parents who would like to join the parent support group should approach either Natalie or Marie.
Congratulations to Danni Childs for winning Daventry Phoenix Gymnastics Coach of the Year 2011 award.
Danni has shown excellent commitment to her coaching and has come on leaps and bounds developing into an enthusiastic role model for young aspiring gymnasts.
Congratulations were expressed to the coaches who have worked so hard with all the gymnasts enabling them to participate in the weekend of gymnastics and to head coach Marie Bannigan for overseeing the whole competition.
Marie along with Natalie Bannigan and Elaine Bedford spent hours organising and preparing this competition to make it a great day for all gymnasts and parents.
Competition results – Overall winners: PG1 4–6 year olds 1st Caitlin Waldock, 2nd Lilly Kent, 3rd Felix Fretter.
PG2 6–7 year olds 1st Frankie Peabody, 2nd Emily Levett, 3rd Ameyla Goodfellow.
G1A 8–10 year olds 1st Aleksandra Skomra 2nd Daisy May Harper, 3rd Violet Harper.
G3 4–6 year olds 1st Evelyn Nixon, 2nd Danielle Graham, 3rd Lucy Pepin.
G1 6–8 year olds 1st Elizabeth Reeder, 2nd Evie Law, 3rd Katie Shillito.
A1 7–8 year olds 1st Niamph Purnell, 2nd Molly Sharp, 3rd Rosa Isles.
Boys’ Under 10 year olds 1st Declan March – Kearns, 2nd Connor Wills, 3rd Alex Bushell.
Boys’ development Squad 1st Jaden Khan, 2nd Alfie Bedford, 3rd Jack Tarbun.
Senior Boys’ 1st William Powell, 2nd Leon Martin – Evans, 3rd Callum Marston.
G2 9–11 year olds 1st Isobel Smith, 2nd Lauren Hutchinson, 3rd Sophie Cross.
A2 9–11 year olds 1st Grace White, 2nd Isobella Hannay, 3rd Ellie Eaton.
A3 11–14 year olds 1st Robyn Harris and Kiera Hyams, 2nd Rachel Sloan, 3rd Charlotte Jackson and Megan Browne.
Junior General Gym Squad 1st Brodie Street, 2nd Rebecca MacCaig, 3rd Lucy Wright.
Senior General Gym Squad 1st Tia May Muller, 2nd Elise Phoenix, 3rd Charlotte Mann.
Women’s Artistic Development Squad 1st Beth Corcoran, 2nd Fiona Collins, 3rd Bayley Marston.
Women’s Artistic Junior Squad 1st Oriana Ahmadi, 2nd Katie Smith, 3rd Lara Norman.
Club Champion Lauren Mounteney.
DAVENTRY ladies suffered a 57-43 defeat at the hands of Kingsthorpe.
Rink scores were Mary Gillard, Jackie Lancaster, Rhona Holland and Shirley Shucksmith 14 Di Brumwell 17.
Carol Kershaw, Madge Austin, Julie Spreadbury and Brenda Bishop 12 Sally Row, 17. Anne Robinson, Hazel Wallage, Margaret Faulkner and Pat Symonds 17 Shirley Crighton 23.
Daventry men welcomed Abington and snatched a 92-84 victory winning on four of the five rinks.
Individual rink scores were Brian Robbins, Phil Goodwin, Brian Jones and Brian Scott 19 Peter Kneeshaw 18.
Highest winning rink John O’Connor, Ken Faulkner, Mike Harris and Peter Mercer 24 Mick Taylor 15.
Alan Saunders, Eric Wareing, Keith Bishop and Adge Smith 23 P Boseley 17.
Peter Ashbrook, Michael Robins, Rick Hayes and George Clifton (captain) 20 Alan Ward 15.
Alf Macari, Reg Kershaw and Colin Dovey 6 P Milburn 19.
In the first round of the club men’s fours there were wins for the rinks of Roy Aberdein, Duggie Mitchell, Mark Courtney and John Duke. Sundays game at home to Avon Valley was cancelled due to the snow.
A NEW home has been earmarked for Daventry’s tip shop.
At the end of last year the shop on the High Street, which sold goods that were recycled from the tip on Browns Road, closed down.
It had come under criticism from traders for being in the town centre, and now it looks set to reopen at the old band hall on Waterloo.
Recyclemart runs the shop and manager David Barrett said: “We need to go through the planning process to get a change of use for the building but we are confident.
“It didn’t work for us in the High Street but we are confident this move can be successful.
“The overheads will be cheaper which will enable us to make the items cheaper, which is what we need to do with this kind of business.
“We want to provide a good service for the town.
TALKS are set to take place to try and save Daventry’s university technical college (UTC) bid.
Two weeks ago Chris Heaton-Harris MP and Steve Davies, principal of Moulton College, warned the UTC bid was under serious threat due to the Friends of Daventry Open Spaces (FODOS) applying for village green status for the college site and Eastern Way field.
If granted it could prevent development there.
Now FODOS has requested a meeting with the MP and principal to try and find a solution that would satisfy everyone.
The letter sent by FODOS states: “The Friends of Daventry Open Spaces is equally concerned that the planned university technical college be located in Daventry.
“We welcome your initiative, and proposal, and would be pleased to arrange an informal meeting to explore all avenues in reaching common objectives.”
Speaking to the Daventry Express Mike Fletcher, from FODOS, said: “At the moment we’re trying to get a meeting set up. Exactly what we will be discussing I can’t say yet.”
Mr Heaton-Harris, who warned the UTC bid might be ‘scuppered’ in a few months by FODOS, has since made moves to get a meeting set up.
Also announced with week was a public inquiry into the village green application. It will be held at County Hall in Northampton from Tuesday, March 27, for four days.
This Monday Northamptonshire County Council will discuss giving permission to officers to tender building work and the land transfer.
Details released by NCC for its discussion show the proposed build on the higher half of the old pitch and putt site, off Ashby Road, close to the Phoenix and Community centres.
WELTON Primary School is looking at becoming an academy.
If successful the school would be the first that teaches primary school children to become an academy in the Daventry district.
The Government invited the school, judged to be outstanding by Ofsted, to become an academy in 2010. The time has been spent looking at what becoming an academy would mean for the school.
A consultation will be launched tomorrow (Friday) lasting four weeks to ask parents, staff and the local community what they think of the plans with the school seriously considering the option.
Headteacher Yvonne Watts said: “We are tremendously proud of everything we have achieved as a school. I believe that we have a fantastic group of pupils, staff and governors who have laid the foundation for years of success.
“However, we want to continue to ensure that we have complete control of the school’s future direction.
“This is not a decision that we are taking lightly, but due to the decreasing role of the local education authority, we now feel the time is right for the whole Welton community to discuss if it’s right for us.”
Academy status would give the school greater flexibility and financial freedom to deliver more opportunities to pupils and better rewards for staff.
A letter and booklet explaining what an academy is and what it would mean for the school was due to be sent out tomorrow (Friday) to parents and carers as well as members of the local community.
People will also be asked for their views about the school’s sponsor for the academy, educational charity the David Ross Foundation.
Mrs Watts added: “After a great deal of deliberation, we feel the foundation vision of broadening young peoples’ horizons coupled with their educational expertise means they are a perfect fit for us.”
GOING into the penultimate game of the season it was all to play for at the top of the Soccersixes six-a-side league at the Daventry Leisure Centre.
The top three teams were all within one point of each other going into the night.
Dropping points this week could have been disastrous for any of the teams.
The first match saw Pen Island play off against William Parker in what turned out to be a one-sided affair.
Kevin Moore got Pen Island off to an unbelievable start with a goal straight from the kick off. He added another shortly after.
After losing two goals in quick succession William Parker started to create a few chances of their own.
Mark Fletcher looked certain to score when he was brought down in the box resulting in a penalty. He placed the ball out of the reach of the goalkeeper to score for William Park.
Mark Hyde made it three for Pen Island with a shot outside the box that found its way past the goalkeeper.
Kevin Moore scored his hat-trick in the closing stages ending the game 4-1 to Pen Island.
Coach and Horses had a must-win game against Daventry Olympic.
The game started well for Coach and within the first five minutes Aaron Crampton crossed to Dan Clarke who smashed the ball into the roof of the net.
Shortly after Aaron Crampton fired a shot which hit the back of the net making the game 2-0.
Going into the second-half Coach and Horses applied more pressure and pushed for a third goal.
Steve Jones was played through on goal to make it his first goal of the New Year, extending their lead to three goals. Daventry Olympic scored an impressive consolation goal.
The final game of the night saw Davcelona play the formidable Dons team.
Out of the three matches this was always going to be the toughest game of the night and Davcelona needed the win.
After five minutes, Luke Ireland played a good ball through The Dons’ defence which found Aaron Bishop one-on one with the keeper.
He slotted the ball into the bottom right hand corner to take his team one up.
Shortly after the first goal Luke Ireland was on target with his left foot to put Davcelona into a two-goal lead.
But after a mix-up in the Davcelona defence Cory Bailey who found himself through on goal brought The Dons back into the game.
The final goal came with 10 minutes to go when Dean Lange took a shot from 20 yards out. This was dramatically saved by the goalkeeper who could only punch the ball away.
The ball landed at the feet of Aaron Bishop who fired into an open goal for a 2-2 final score.
Soccersixes are always on the lookout for new teams. Any teams interested contact Richard Rollason on 07929241693 or register online for free at www.soccersixes.net.
THERE were weird experiments and some mad science on display at a village school when children were taught all about water.
Tom Doran, from Mad Science Northampton, visited Badby Primary School on Wednesday to carry out science demonstrations using water and dry ice for the children.
Class teacher Heather Piner said: “We invited Tom into school to do some little experiments for the children to link in with our topic this term which is water.
“The children responded really well and were extremely positive about the whole experience and talked about it for the rest of the day.
“Bringing in people from outside the school brings new ideas in and provides the children with an experience they will remember.”
CHANGES may be made to Daventry district’s Sex Establishment Licensing Policy this week.
A meeting on Thursday looks likely to approve a policy change allowing visitors to lap dancing clubs to put money into strippers’ garters.
At present there are no lap dancing clubs in the district.
The amendment will be discussed by Daventry District Council’s strategy group on Thursday.
It is one of a number of minor changes put forward for the policy, which was adopted by the council last year.
Council officers have recommended that section 7E of the policy is changed so that it is worded as follows: “There shall be no physical contact between the customer and the performer during the performance or after the performance, save for the insertion of a gratuity into a garter or similar garment.
“Outlining this shall be clearly displayed at the entrance of the premises and in each bar area.”
The policy was adopted last year to enable the regulation of sex shops, sex cinemas and sexual entertainment venues such as lap dancing clubs within the Daventry District.