A Wirral cafe will be allowed to serve alcohol, despite reports of a recent fight at the premises.
Cibo, at 90 Banks Road in West Kirby, will be allowed to sell alcohol between midday and 8.30pm from Sunday to Thursday and for an hour longer on Fridays and Saturdays, with the premises open from 9am each day after Wirral Council's Licensing Panel approved its booze plans. But Michael Rose, the applicant, admitted there had been a violent incident at the premises when a man came over the road and started hitting one of his friends “totally out of the blue”.
Mr Rose said he had not fuelled the incident, but the point the two residents at the hearing wanted to make was that there had been what they described as a “fight” recently at the premises. The panel was told the business was not open when the altercation took place, although some were present as it was being used for staff training.
