A lapdancing club, which opened three weeks ago in Burgess Hill, just north of Brighton, was destoyed by fire on Tuesday morning, the result of a supected arson attack.


Leo Valls watches one of the dancers perform
Club Redd's owner, Leo Valls, (seated in photo) managed to sound philisophical, grandiose and facetious at the same time:

"With some people it (being anti lap dancing) runs to a high passion.  I compare it to the book burning in Berlin in 1939"
No one was hurt in the fire, which it would be totally innacurate and probably libellous to suggest might have been started as a publicity stunt.

Literature and Lapdancing.  No doubt it is already a combined degree option at the University of Sussex/