A pub has been forced to accept a number of conditions to retain its licence to sell alcohol.

Brighton and Hove City Council’s licensing committee has ordered the owners of The Winner pub in Elm Grove, Brighton, to obey strict new conditions or face being shut.

Police told a licensing hearing that the pub had been at the centre of a catalogue of crime and disorder.

Officers also said they would bring other bars which are hotbeds of trouble before the council.

Police told the hearing they had been called to numerous incidents including fights, a karaoke night which resulted in a violent assault and an accident in which a man stumbled out of the pub drunk and into the path of a car.

Sussex Police, along with trading standards officers, made test purchases and the pub twice sold drink to underage youngsters.

Pubs’n’Bars Plc, which owns The Winner and five other Brighton pubs, sacked landlord Peter Whately and hired a new manager prior to the hearing. The company agreed to only sell alcohol between midday and 11pm.

It will not be allowed to extend the hours for bank holidays or special occasions and must ask anyone who appears to be under 25 to show ID before they are served.

Children will only be allowed into the bar until 8pm.

The licensing committee also ordered that two qualified bouncers must be hired on any evening when there is entertainment and digital CCTV must be installed.

All the staff must undergo extra training in spotting underage drinkers and a refusals book must be filled with the details of anyone who cannot prove their age.

Police licensing officer David Bateup said: “We are pleased with the outcome. This decision, in addition to other recent cases, reflects the robust manner in which the committee is determined to deal with cases of irresponsible licensees selling alcohol to children.”

Pubs’n’Bars declined to comment.