Venues run by troubled Dundee pub firm Macmerry were closed at the weekend after police scolded managers for breaching their booze licences.
Cops visited several venues in the city centre on Friday night after receiving a tip-off to suggest that the bars might be operating without the proper paperwork. Sources told Dundee Live that the affected venues included nightclub Nola - part of rum bar The King of Islington - as well as pasta bar Franks and its associated venues, The Blue Room and Draffens.
Food venue Bird and Bear and the attached Abandon Ship Dundee bar were also visited by cops, who said the watering holes had been operating "otherwise in accordance" with their licences. The difficulty is thought to have arisen because the parent company governing every venue was wound up earlier this month.
