Euro Security Concept Ltd admitted two offences of providing an unlicensed security officer.

The Blackpool firm was fined £700 with £300 costs and ordered to pay the £15 victims’ surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.

Victoria Cartmell, prosecuting for Blackpool Council, said last year a public protection officer went to the Eden 2 nightspot on the Promenade and found one door supervisor working there whose licence had expired.

On the 5th June, an officer returned to Eden 2 and seized the door supervisors’ register.

Two unlicensed door supervisors provided by Euro Security Concept were found to have worked at Eden 2.

John Woosnam, defending, said the company had now changed its system for checking that workers’ licences were up to date and had no previous convictions.