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Weston-super-Mare in Somerset features in most of this morning’s newspapers for what the town’s good burghers are most likely to feel are the wrong reasons.
I’ve never visited this town and looked up its website (I loved the advertisement for the Dog Lead Shop!). It appears to be a typical seaside town with miles of golden sands complete with donkeys, a pier, a large observation wheel, an aquarium, two museums including one of helicopters, a Memorial Garden to Jill Dando plus all the usual holiday resort attractions. Wikipedia advises that notable residents of the town have included Bob Hope, John Cleese, Jill Dando and Rupert Graves.
But, like any other town I suppose, there is another side to Weston-super-Mare, for, among others probably, it has a nightclub advertising itself as an 'exotic house of luxury' in which the paying guests can enjoy an 'exclusive lap and pole dancing venue'.
I imagine that most towns (with the probable exception of Frinton in Essex!) have these so-called night clubs and that they would most likely prefer that they not become the focus of national attention. So what has made Weston-super-Mare different?
It is that undercover reporters (yeah, right!) discovered a 14-year old schoolgirl performing there as a lap dancer and giving men £20-a-time naked dances. Not only that, but the shocked reporters discovered she was drinking vodka alcopops.
Inevitably, the police became involved and the young lady concerned, who told reporters ‘This is only my second night but I'm a very good lap dancer’, has been asked to concentrate more on her school work than lap dancing in future. Her shocked mother will have to be watchful in future - she thought her daughter was at a sleepover!
Who’d have thought it?
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Weston-super-Mare in Somerset features in most of this morning’s newspapers for what the town’s good burghers are most likely to feel are the wrong reasons.
I’ve never visited this town and looked up its website (I loved the advertisement for the Dog Lead Shop!). It appears to be a typical seaside town with miles of golden sands complete with donkeys, a pier, a large observation wheel, an aquarium, two museums including one of helicopters, a Memorial Garden to Jill Dando plus all the usual holiday resort attractions. Wikipedia advises that notable residents of the town have included Bob Hope, John Cleese, Jill Dando and Rupert Graves.
But, like any other town I suppose, there is another side to Weston-super-Mare, for, among others probably, it has a nightclub advertising itself as an 'exotic house of luxury' in which the paying guests can enjoy an 'exclusive lap and pole dancing venue'.
I imagine that most towns (with the probable exception of Frinton in Essex!) have these so-called night clubs and that they would most likely prefer that they not become the focus of national attention. So what has made Weston-super-Mare different?
It is that undercover reporters (yeah, right!) discovered a 14-year old schoolgirl performing there as a lap dancer and giving men £20-a-time naked dances. Not only that, but the shocked reporters discovered she was drinking vodka alcopops.
Inevitably, the police became involved and the young lady concerned, who told reporters ‘This is only my second night but I'm a very good lap dancer’, has been asked to concentrate more on her school work than lap dancing in future. Her shocked mother will have to be watchful in future - she thought her daughter was at a sleepover!
Who’d have thought it?
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