THE owner of a medieval tower, which is under siege from drunken revellers, has won his battle to stop an adjacent nightclub from carousing into the early hours of Mondays.

Richard Davies, 48, has spent four years restoring the Grade II listed remains on Castle Road, Kidderminster.

He told Wyre Forest District Council licensing and environmental chiefs bottles and glasses were being hurled against Caldwall Tower by people leaving and trying to get into Zanzibar nightclub.

He said vandalism, which included broken windows, had caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage since the private 14th century building was restored earlier this year.

Mr Davies, who has been hit by a flying bottle, said he regularly had to clean up shattered glass in his garden which caused injury to him and others.

He told Monday's meeting, revellers had sex, urinated, defecated and vomited on his property and left fast food and packaging. Richard Davies who has won his battle to prevent a neighbouring nightclub from

extending its hours.

He said: "On the rare occasions when I have attended my property at night I have tried to remove people from the grounds of Caldwall in the early hours in order to protect my property but this has resulted in a public order situation with the potential of violence."

He added noise caused by music inside Zanzibar and "drunken and disorderly behaviour" outside made it impossible to sleep.

Rodney Shiers, representing Zanzibar owner Springwood Leisure, said the club, which wanted permission for music, singing and dancing up to 12.30am on Mondays and 2am on most Bank Holiday Mondays, had introduced a number of measures to combat the problems.

But he challenged Mr Davies to prove it was customers of Zanzibar, rather than those from Mirage and Redwoods, on Dixon Street, who were responsible.

Rob Key, head of environmental health and community safety for the district council which opposed the application, also came under fire from Mr Shiers, for not objecting to a similar bid by Mirage.

But Mr Key said: "The club is very, very closely attached to a densely packed residential area" and he said there was recognition of the "special nature" of Sunday.

Committee members, who refused to allow other representations from neighbouring residents because of their late submission, said they would give the reasons for their refusal in writing.