The new owners of the unlicensed sex shop in Rowlands Road, Worthing, are making a fresh bid for a licence.

Worthing Borough Council's licensing committee is discussing the application for Pillow Talk, which used to be called Secret Desires, on Wednesday, July 1.

As an unlicensed sex shop Pillow Talk can sell underwear, adult toys, magazines and 18 certificate DVDs and videos. It is also permitted to allow under-18s on the premises.

Campaigners have mounted letter-writing campaigns and launched a Facebook group against allowing the shop to sell restricted R18 films. These campaigners have fought off three previous licence bids and this time have sent 69 letters of objection.

In contrast there is support for the shop within the community. A Facebook group set up in favour of the sex shop has more than four times the members of the say no group.

Since it opened the licensing committee has not received a relevant complaint about the shop. Licensing inspector Simon Jones' described the shop in his report as clean, tidy and well presented inside, and did not cause him any current concern from a legal standpoint.

No objection to the plan has been raised by Sussex Police, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, Worthing Borough Council's environmental health, planning services and community safety departments.

The committee meeting in Worthing Town Hall at 6pm is open to the public.

A company wants to open a sex shop in a Wrexham town centre property famous for being the birthplace of the oldest surviving member of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Edwin Hughes - who became known as Balaclava Ned after riding with the 13th Light Dragoons in the suicidal charge during the Crimean War - was born at number 2 Mount Street in 1830.

In 1992 local businessman Bob Gray paid for a commemorative plaque to be fixed to the side of the building, which is now unoccupied.

The National Chairman of the Crimean War Research Society Col Peter Knox who lives in the Mold area said: I'm horrified, but what can one do, all our members will be horrified too. We will certainly be lodging a complaint with the planning authority in Wrexham. The idea of opening a sex shop in such a significant birthplace is a slur on the memory of the man and the campaign. Balaclava Ned would be spinning in his grave, It's totally unacceptable.

Fantasy House is applying to Wrexham Council for a licence to turn the premises into a shop selling adult clothing. The application is due to come before the environmental licensing committee on July 27.

When the scheme was considered by the town centre's Offa Community Council recently, councillors raised objections to the possibility of a second adult shop being sited so close to an Private Shop just further along Yorke Street. Some nutters thought such premises should not be sited so close to the Wrexham Parish Church.