Bristol lapdancers celebrate council vote to keep clubs open

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There were passionate speeches, barbed exchanges, tears and laughter - hardly the usual fare at a meeting of Bristol city council's licensing committee.

But most committee members could not help but smile when performers from the city's two lapdancing clubs greeted their decision not to shut down the venues with whoops and cheers.