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Nightclub told to clean up its act
Police licensing co-ordinator Tony Cope outside the nightclub
Police licensing co-ordinator Tony Cope outside the nightclub

A city nightclub will be closed for six weeks after police produced a dossier of disorder detailing alcohol-fuelled violence and underage drinking.

The Imperial, in Park End Street, was told yesterday its premises licence had been suspended until May 1 by city council licensing chiefs. And it was warned to clean up its act or face permanent closure.

Click here to oxfordmail.co.uk's clubbing guide

Drinks promotions - including 'toss for a shot' where drinkers can win a spirit shot on the flick of a coin - and a string of disturbances worried police chiefs so much they urged the city council to close the venue.

However, licensing officials decided to give the venue time to sort out its problems.

Police licensing co-ordinator Tony Cope said: "Putting more conditions on the licence and rectifying the situation would be wasting time."

After the hearing he added: "Suspension is a halfway house for us. It was not being run responsibly - there was too much of a crime-and-disorder issue with underage drinking and violence. We will look quite closely at it. It will stay on our radar for a long time."

Police cited several recent disturbances - including a fight involving 15 to 20 men which erupted outside the club on February 16, but no bouncers intervened. A week before, toilets were swabbed for drugs during a licensing check and a high reading of cocaine was found.

Environmental health officer Scott Grant said "a huge list of problems" were found at an inspection during December.

City centre police inspector Richard Brown said: "The premises really came to our attention back in August and all the way through the autumn.

"There was a steady drip of assaults and thefts. Management did not seem to have a grip on controlling these incidents."

Club manager Philip Glenn said since he took over four weeks ago there had been no major incidents. He said the dress code had been tightened and identification was now requested from all guests.

Financial problems were blamed on the club's failure to immediately fix licence breaches, but all matters were now being dealt with, he said.

A one-off event at the club on Sunday is still scheduled to go ahead.

Mr Cope said the suspension would not come into effect until April 9 if there was an appeal which failed.

6:00am Wednesday 19th March 2008

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Posted by: Raver, Cheltenham on 8:53am Wed 19 Mar 08
Oxford is absolutley rubbish for clubbing! I am Oxford born and bred but last year moved to Cheltenham where clubbing is much much better,in Oxford the pubs in the City centre are useless and the clubs even worse,but then everytime someone wants to open a new venue people complain we are at saturation point! Oxford is a joke! it doesn't cater for locals just tourist and students!
Posted by: Local, Boy on 9:30am Wed 19 Mar 08
Shut this dive permenantly. It has been nothing but trouble since it opened, and it's only a matter of time until they have a real problem there.

Good ridance I say.
Posted by: alan page on 9:40am Wed 19 Mar 08
Raver wrote:
Oxford is absolutley rubbish for clubbing! I am Oxford born and bred but last year moved to Cheltenham where clubbing is much much better,in Oxford the pubs in the City centre are useless and the clubs even worse,but then everytime someone wants to open a new venue people complain we are at saturation point! Oxford is a joke! it doesn't cater for locals just tourist and students!
With mindless self absorbed drones like this as clientele is it any wonder there's trouble?

What's the glowstick distribution like in Cheltenham party boy? I'm sure we are all dying to know.



Posted by: ivortheengine on 9:49am Wed 19 Mar 08
alan page wrote:
Raver wrote: Oxford is absolutley rubbish for clubbing! I am Oxford born and bred but last year moved to Cheltenham where clubbing is much much better,in Oxford the pubs in the City centre are useless and the clubs even worse,but then everytime someone wants to open a new venue people complain we are at saturation point! Oxford is a joke! it doesn't cater for locals just tourist and students!
With mindless self absorbed drones like this as clientele is it any wonder there's trouble? What's the glowstick distribution like in Cheltenham party boy? I'm sure we are all dying to know.
Well said Alan.
Posted by: Senor Dick, Oxford on 11:01am Wed 19 Mar 08
So there is a little bit of trouble outside a pub or club,so what? that's been happening since the 60's why so different now?
Posted by: Leach Valley Yellow, Oxford on 11:21am Wed 19 Mar 08
Leave it open. One of Oxford's greatest assets is Park End Street, where the county's morons flock to like flies round dog muck, drinking drink themselves senseless, fighting and vomiting to their hearts' content, allowing most of the rest of the city centre to be a relaxed and pleasant place in the evenings.
Posted by: OxfordHead, oxford on 11:48am Wed 19 Mar 08
This has been blown out of proportion unfortunately, there is a suspension of Imperials license that may go through, however a date is not yet fixed. THE CLUB IS STILL OPEN, and will be tommorrow night & Sunday. What club in oxford hasn't had it's issue's I ask you?.....There have been no issue's with Imperial since the new management took over 4 weeks ago.
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Posted by: DanOxford on 1:20pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Alan Page-

Relax Alan- you don't live in Oxford- remember?

This simple fact means you need not trouble yourself with events occurring here and we need not concern ourselves with your sneering narcissistic personality disorder- based problems and constant need to mask your own (clear) inadeqacies by assuming some misplaced superiority over the people who actually DO live in Oxford.
Posted by: Sick of you!, Here on 2:09pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Can someone please shut Alan Page up – he never has anything positive to say about anything - what moaning, groaning boring old git. Please, no more of his negative emails on this page.
Posted by: alan page on 2:09pm Wed 19 Mar 08
DanOxford wrote:
Alan Page- Relax Alan- you don't live in Oxford- remember? This simple fact means you need not trouble yourself with events occurring here and we need not concern ourselves with your sneering narcissistic personality disorder- based problems and constant need to mask your own (clear) inadeqacies by assuming some misplaced superiority over the people who actually DO live in Oxford.
Case in point, How's the glowstick?

In your case, there is no assumption about it.

I'm not the one all jittery about moslems. I'm not the one who has spent his entire life wondering the same streets as I did as a kid.

I have actually left my home town. Actually had some LIFE experience.

Get the picture?
Posted by: alan page on 2:14pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sick of you! wrote:
Can someone please shut Alan Page up – he never has anything positive to say about anything - what moaning, groaning boring old git. Please, no more of his negative emails on this page.
Oh dear, somebody has lost their glowstick.

A major tragedy all round. Never mind i'm sure you will find another one. They are pretty cheap.

Rather like your life in fact, my anonymous, cowardly, bourgeois.

Now get back to your little desk and do all those lovely little figures right otherwise your boss won't be very happy with you.

No bonus, no drugs. And we all know how important they are to your sad little life don't we?
Posted by: Craig Simmonds, Green green grass of Oxford on 2:18pm Wed 19 Mar 08
alan is an idiot, what an absolute moron!
and as for the imperial, this place has been causing noise pollution for years. why not turn it into a lovely cafe that sells scones and cakes?
Posted by: alan page on 2:20pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Personally I love seeing those fabulous little poodles all doing the "peppermint twist" for real.

Or jumping up and down waving their arms in the air for no readily explicable reason (other than chemical).

I laugh so hard it's painful. Even when relaxing these people have no individuality whatsoever.
Posted by: alan page on 2:22pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Craig Simmonds wrote:
alan is an idiot, what an absolute moron! and as for the imperial, this place has been causing noise pollution for years. why not turn it into a lovely cafe that sells scones and cakes?
Being called a moron by some jerk masquerading as somebody else who hasn't yet discovered capital letters is one of the finer experiences in life.
Posted by: Egap Nala on 2:22pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Pagey, you're a k*ob, Pagey, Pagey you're a kn*b
Posted by: Dave Angel, oxford on 2:25pm Wed 19 Mar 08
HE'S THE MEANEST, HE SUCKS THE HORSE'S PE***, ALAN PAGE IS A HORSE'S ARSE!!!
Posted by: alan page on 2:25pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Egap Nala wrote:
Pagey, you're a k*ob, Pagey, Pagey you're a kn*b
And here we see the inhabitants of Oxford engaging in sheer poetic luxuriance.

We can see the reason why it was a breeding ground for Southey, Byron, Wilde and all those other great poets.

Such economy of expression, such subtlety of voice, such elevation of thought.

Not bad for a company director.
Posted by: alan page on 2:28pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Dave Angel wrote:
HE'S THE MEANEST, HE SUCKS THE HORSE'S PE***, ALAN PAGE IS A HORSE'S ARSE!!!
See how the lyricism pours off of the page.
Like liquid Honey. Was there ever a more sensuous blend of impressionism with hints of Joycean "obscenity".

"Ode to the Imperial" would make a fitting title methinks.
Posted by: Brecht on 2:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Oh show me the way to next Whisky Bar!
Oh don't ask why
Oh don't ask why
For we must find that next whiskey bar
For if we don't find that next whiskey bar,
I tell you we must die!!
Posted by: alan page on 2:34pm Wed 19 Mar 08
And to think these vacuous creeps have the temerity to look down their drug ridden noses at council estate inhabitants is even funnier.
Posted by: DanOxford on 2:52pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Alan page bored us with:

I'm not the one who has spent his entire life wondering the same streets as I did as a kid.

I have actually left my home town. Actually had some LIFE experience.

Get the picture?


Er- not from anything you've ever 'contributed', no.

The only 'wondering' as opposed to 'wandering' I do is quite why you continue to take an interest in the goings on of a city and people you clearly despise, and who consistently and collectively fail to either recognise your 'genius' or take any notice whatsoever of your pseudo- intellectual Leftie posturing gibberish.
Posted by: DanOxford on 2:55pm Wed 19 Mar 08
h- and Alan- I think from now on you should restrict yourself to comically shouting: 'Bl00dy Hell Mike! Vivian's set fire to Neil!' to complete your transition to Rik from 'The Young Ones'.
Posted by: Joe, Marston Road on 5:10pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Craig Simmonds wrote:
alan is an idiot, what an absolute moron! and as for the imperial, this place has been causing noise pollution for years. why not turn it into a lovely cafe that sells scones and cakes?
alan is most upset!

No coffee?
Posted by: poppy, iffley road on 5:57pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Hope Alan Page lets me have my say ? Its a pity that getting blind drunk is mostly done by British people. You can drink in a bar in France or Italy and its more of a relaxing social outing. Have a few drinks, have nice food, drink coffee, talk to your friends, no rush as you will still be able to do the same the next day. If drink makes you angry, fight or sick, why bother ??
Posted by: Social Drinker, Oxford on 9:11pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Here we go again, Poppy, the good old English inferiority complex; salutations to the "continental master drinking race", etc. All the party animals in all other countries are loving it that the scrutiny's not on them. Take note, they won't let up till the bad old days of th "11 O'clock swill" are back.
Posted by: DanOxford, Oxford on 11:29pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Social Drinker- oh come on- what else would the white middle class Left do if they weren't wringing their hands about English binge drinkers and how terribly awful the Empire was and how we should all feel so guilty about what 'we' did to all those lovely 'diverse' people (God bless them- always smiling, such bright clothes, go to church- why they're ALMOST just like you and I!)that we should allow absolutely anyone to come to this Country, and if a by product of that is we become some crime ridden hell hole divided along any ethnic/ cultural/ religious line that someone can claim to get extra funding and 'respect' for then by Jingo don't we deserve it for being so wicked!
Posted by: alan page on 12:14am Thu 20 Mar 08
ivortheengine wrote:
alan page wrote:
Raver wrote: Oxford is absolutley rubbish for clubbing! I am Oxford born and bred but last year moved to Cheltenham where clubbing is much much better,in Oxford the pubs in the City centre are useless and the clubs even worse,but then everytime someone wants to open a new venue people complain we are at saturation point! Oxford is a joke! it doesn\'t cater for locals just tourist and students!
With mindless self absorbed drones like this as clientele is it any wonder there\'s trouble? What\'s the glowstick distribution like in Cheltenham party boy? I\'m sure we are all dying to know.
Well said Alan.
Well that was fun wasn't it?

I think the only people to benefit from 24 hour alcohol availability are the manufacturers. Like they did during the 18th and 19th centuries before the Left flexed its muscles and got the hours limited.

Another Liberal delusion. "Continentaldrinking ethos" "so sophisticated, old boy?"

You know, there are things known as BOOKS and HISTORY which would say it was doomed to failure from the start. But i suppose our beloved bourgeois were too busy being smacked to the tits on drugs and waving glowsticks about to be arsed with such trivialities.

Oxford a cultural centre? Possibly for Mill's "swinish majority" who seem to occupy it. But then glowsticks are also highly regarded as well.
It's (to use their own term of reference) the Blackbird Leys of culture.

Posted by: dnbraver, Summertown, Oxford on 1:36am Thu 20 Mar 08
I've heard the drum and bass night has been cancelled. Shame I was looking forward to seeing Break. Ended up buying a ticket for Nextmen which is at Carling Academy on the same night. If you wanted to go then the Nextmen is a worthy replacement.
Posted by: Phil Glenn, Oxford on 12:12pm Thu 20 Mar 08
I am the manager of the Imperial night club. To let all know, the club is open as usual. Please come and offer you support over the next four days. We are open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (extended licence on sunday, Untill 4am)

Thank you for all you comments, good and bad. If any one has any questions or comments please do not hesitate to use this forum, call me or email me.


My contact details are: Mob: 07756902753 or e-mail philip_glenn@hotmail



.com.
Posted by: looby, Radley on 6:25pm Mon 31 Mar 08
Anyway, anyone fancy a fight?
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