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Bristol City Council votes down motion to ban strip clubs

Exotic dancers in Bristol are celebrating today after the council voted down a motion to ban strip clubs and other sex entertainment venues (SEVs) in the city. A consortium of women’s rights organisations and community groups have been campaigning ...

28 Jul 2022 at 17:09

National News

Group alleges that hundreds of men claiming to be gardaí have been abusing sex workers

An online group dedicated to raising awareness about the rights and safety of sex workers has told An Garda Síochana that hundreds of men claiming to be gardaí have allegedly been abusing sex workers nationwide. The organisation, named Ugly Mugs ...

25 Apr 2022 at 23:33

Local News

Group alleges that hundreds of men claiming to be gardaí have been abusing sex workers

26 Apr 2022 at 16:33

Local News

Group alleges that hundreds of men claiming to be gardaí have been abusing sex workers

26 Apr 2022 at 22:33

Scotland

Council pays out more than £100,000 in legal fees in failed sex club fight

Edinburgh’s council taxpayers have had to fork out more than £100,000 to pay the legal fees in the authority’s failed bid to ban strip clubs. Lawyers representing strippers and the clubs they work in faced down an attempt by the City ...

21 Mar 2023 at 12:46

Scotland

Strippers say winning battle against Edinburgh council’s club ban ‘essential’

A union representing Edinburgh’s strippers has said winning its battle against the city’s strip club ban was “essential to save the jobs of hundreds of workers” in the Scottish capital. The City of Edinburgh Council voted through a ...

08 Jun 2022 at 20:13

Scotland

Hearing to consider overturn of Edinburgh’s ban on strip clubs begins

The battle to overturn Edinburgh’s ban on strip clubs has reached the courts, with a judge set to decide if the nil-cap policy is legal. A union representing exotic dancers and the clubs set to be banned made their cases against ...

01 Dec 2022 at 18:52

Scotland

Council has right to set strip club limit at zero, court told

Edinburgh councillors have the right to set the maximum number of sexual entertainment venues at zero, the city council’s lawyer has told a judicial review into a policy which will effectively ban strip clubs. A City of ...

02 Dec 2022 at 19:09

Pimping websites dubbed the ‘Etsy of exploitation’, as MPs urge Government ban

MPs have been told pimping websites are the “the Etsy of sexual exploitation” that make trafficking “as easy as ordering a pizza”. During the second reading of the Crime and Policing Bill Conservative MP Rebecca Paul ...

10 Mar 2025 at 22:41

Scotland

Bill to criminalise those buying sex branded ‘dangerous’ by sex workers

Sex workers have warned that a bid to criminalise those who use their services could be “disastrous” for their safety. The new Scotland for Decrim campaign has been set up to oppose Alba MSP Ash Regan’s “dangerous” ...

19 May 2025 at 11:43

Scotland

Alba MSP lodges Bill to criminalise the buying of sex in Scotland

A Bill that would criminalise the buying of sex in Scotland while decriminalising those selling sexual services has been lodged at Holyrood. Alba MSP Ash Regan said her Prostitution (Offences and Support) ...

20 May 2025 at 00:01

Scotland

Former prostitute backs Alba MSP’s Bill to criminalise those buying sex

A former prostitute has told how she feared she would be murdered “every day” as she gave her backing to a Bill that could see men jailed for buying sex. Alba Party MSP Ash Regan has introduced a ...

20 May 2025 at 15:02

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