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improve the business and it has now reopened.”

Magistrates ordered the business owner, who was not present in court, to pay £300 prosecution costs.

Grillish hit the headlines after selling a Trading Standards test purchaser a mutton seekh kebab containing a mixture of cow, sheep and chicken DNA.

The owner at the time, Waqas Iqbal, was fined and blamed the supplier of the products for not correctly informing him what the meat was.

Then in March he was fined again for 14 offences related to food safety and hygiene breaches and failure to comply with a hygiene improvement notice.

Problems included failing to keep all equipment coming into contact with food clean, disinfected and in good repair.

Staff failed to ensure that food packaging was stored in a manner to prevent exposure to a risk of contamination.

Food was not kept at the required temperature to prevent the growth of harmful toxins or pathogenic micro-organisms.

The business was not kept clean and maintained in a good condition and staff were not adequately trained.

In August 2016 poor standards of hygiene were observed and the takeaway received a zero rating on the Scores on the Doors website.

Then last September council officials visited again and the rating was slightly improved to one out of five, with Iqbal given advice on the issues.

Many of these had not been resolved by the next visit and a decision was made to issue the business with a hygiene improvement notice, giving Iqbal a set amount of time to carry out improvements.

Iqbal told magistrates when he appeared in court over these charges that he has since sold the business due to his ill-health.