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HIPPO IN FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE

EXECUTIVES from one of the West End’s most famous night clubs are to launch a legal challenge against City Hall’s decision to strip it of its licence.
Cirque at the Hippodrome, in Leicester Square, became the only venue to have a conversion licence under the new Licensing Act refused by Westminster Council following warnings by the police that “fatalities could occur”.
The police produced pages and pages of evidence to the committee on Monday morning with details of more than 100 incidents they claimed were connected to the club including a shooting.
But the club’s managers have claimed the evidence is “unfounded” and “not accurate”.
The club is now planning to submit a new application while seeking to overturn the decision in the magistrates court and the high court. But if they fail the club will close for good on November 24.
The police listed more than 130 incidents at the club between April 2004 and August this year.
But the most damning evidence presented to Westminster’s licensing committee was a police report which suggests a club doorman opened doors to let some men take away an injured man who had been shot inside the club at the end of August this year.
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