A seafront bar in Brighton has been found guilty of illegally dumping rubbish, it has emerged.
The Varsity Bar owned by the Barracuda Group on Brighton city's seafront changed its name after its predecessor The Prodigal was fined £8,000 for failing an environmental health inspection.
The Council's Cityclean officers said they found 30 bin bags of trade waste close to the premises over a three day period at the end of February and that litter was strewn all over the road after seagulls attacked the bags.
The council described the pub's behaviour as "very antisocial", and the owner has been given 14 days to pay a fine of £500 as well as council costs of £750.
Michael Logue, enforcement officer with Cityclean, said: "Dumping trade waste is a criminal offence, and businesses who fail to have a licensed waste contractor are breaking the law."
A Barracuda spokesperson said: "This happened because a contractor had not emptied our full waste bins on a Saturday. We placed the Sunday waste in plastic bags alongside those four bins, expecting them to be collected on the Monday and that's why we were prosecuted."
