Some of the world's finest oysters will be on the menu when a top fish restaurant moves into Brighton.

Loch Fyne Restaurants will move into the former Debenhams site in Western Road when a £7.5 million refurbishment of the city centre site is completed.

The chain was started in Argyll by landowner John Noble in 1977 using oysters from its own beds in Loch Fyne, Scotland, and locally caught fish.

The Brighton branch will be the first in Sussex, although it does have other eateries in London and the South-East.

The restaurant will take up one of four shop units in the development, opposite the Waitrose supermarket, which should start trading in the autumn.

An organic food superstore is lined up for one of the other units.

Two leading retailers yet to open up in Brighton and Hove are negotiating for the remaining units.

Twenty-one luxury flats, including penthouse suites with three bedrooms, are being finished above the ground floor shopping development.

Prices for one-bedroom flats start at £110,000 and the total residential sale is estimated to be in the region of £4 million.

Andy Lees of Graves Jenkins, which is handing the project on behalf of the owners Awan International, said: "Brighton is the place to be at the moment and the location, quality and design of these apartments makes them extremely popular."