A PUB faces cutting its entertainment programme after losing an appeal against a council ruling ordering it to install CCTV.

Wyre Forest District Council's licensing and environmental committee ordered the licensee of The Cavalier, Tennyson Way, Kidderminster, to install CCTV - at a cost of up to £10,000 - at a meeting in April.

Bernadette White wanted to change her public entertainments licence to reduce numbers allowed in the pub at the weekend from 200 to 150, which would mean the installation of CCTV would not be compulsory - but the council refused the variation.

Cavalier owner Voyager Pubs appealed against the decision, stating entertainment requiring a licence would be scrapped if the council's ruling was upheld.

Area manager Brian Roach said 60 people were present on a busy evening at The Cavalier, while the music played would not appeal to "the younger element".

But Kidderminster magistrates threw out the appeal after police said CCTV would have helped tackle eight recent incidents of disorder at the pub.