THE beefy British answer to the Chippendales were told they would not be able to take their clothes off in Oswaldtwistle.

The male strippers group Obsession applied to stage their sizzling show at the town hall civic theatre.

But Hyndburn's leisure committee chairman Coun Ian Ormerod and vice-chairman Coun Frances Molloy decided the act was too raunchy.

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