Police are to monitor a Worthing night club for another three months after concerns were raised about its management.

Worthing's licensing committee decided not to grant the town's This That The Other club a 12-month public entertainment licence because environmental health officers said they had worries about the running of the nightspot.

Committee chairman Iona Baker said bosses had not done anything wrong but uncertainty about their limited "track record" had spurred the extension of the monitoring period.

She said: "They are relatively new licensees and do not have the track record that some of the other licensees in Worthing have and that was the police's main concern."

A borough council report said the environmental health group had not objected to the nightclub's licence renewal but it had reservations about a lack of "documented health and safety procedures and use of unregistered door staff".

Councillor Baker said unregistered door staff had been spotted at This That The Other, on the junction of Newland Road and Chapel Road, on one occasion but the club also had sufficient registered door staff on duty for the number of people on the premises.

The nightclub's next licence application will come before the committee in September.

Monday June 9, 2003