POLICE have temporarily shut a Dudley nightclub following a spate of violence.

Rock Zombie will be closed until next month after the doors of the King Street venue were rushed by groups of men for two weekends running.

West Midlands Police secured the temporary closure at an interim hearing at Dudley Magistrates Court yesterday (Thursday).

A full hearing will take place on August 2.

Sergeant James Jones, from Dudley Police’s partnerships team, said: "In the interests of public safety we could not allow that to happen again."

Officers have been called to the club 32 times this year and 13 crimes have been recorded, with a sharp spike over the last few weeks.

Since June 26, there have been seven violent offences and one occasion where criminal damage was caused to a police vehicle.