A Worthing pub has failed in its bid to gain a licence to stage music, dancing and karaoke on Saturday nights.

Objectors claimed they were already being plagued by loud music, vandalism to cars and disturbance near the Southdown Hotel in Northcourt Road.

Landlady Dawn Troncone had applied to Worthing Borough Council for a public entertainments licence.

Neither the police nor council noise pollution experts objected to the application, which would have applied from 8pm to 11pm, but last night the council's licensing panel refused the application.

There was also concern that the licence would be for 150 people, yet the hotel had no off-street parking, which was already seen as a problem because nearby King Street was used as a rat run.