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Preston Greenlands Labour Club Fight

next review with children up to eight years for the adult audience

heads the Council requested a review of the license of a Lancashire club after he was held in cage fighting with children up to eight years.

concern was expressed after the children involved in a fight at the club I work at Preston Greenlands at an adult audience of 250 people. The City Council will check to see if any violation of this license and asked the club not to similar events involving minors.

A video of the fight on September 10, published on the Internet, has shown that children fighting in a cage with no protective padding and headgear.

Deputy Chief Councillor of the City of Preston, John Swindells, said: "I, like many others, I am appalled by the incident of fighting in the cage between children take place at Preston I'm really concerned about the risk. of harm to children who were aged eight years.

"After reviewing the conditions for granting licenses for the green there is also a requirement that children should not be on site at public events after 18 hours, and I think it should be considered whether this particular condition violated.

"I, and many people in Preston, can not ignore or tolerate this event cage fighting with children who are held in our city. So I applied for a work permit green Club for consideration. A formal review process will continue to license now. "

The review may take up to three months at the club is allowed 28 days to make representations, and then there is a similar period for the public to give their opinion.

Swindells said: "I am not against fighting in the cage for working adults and the club is a community center green precious and important, however, I ask [the club]." In no way made any show of future cash in the fight against children. Since then ask the committee to tighten licensing conditions for such events as the children are not allowed to occur at Preston. "

The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has condemned the fighting in a cage as "barbaric" and expressed surprise at the lack of restrictions on it.