A restaurant was fined £10,500 yesterday, after Stockton Borough Council's environmental health department found filthy conditions throughout the building and poor food hygiene.

Dartmanor Limited, which own McCoys, of Yarm, pleaded guilty at Teesside Magistrates to 11 offences under Food Safety Act legislation, including a lack of facilities for pest control, unacceptable conditions in the staff toilet and no soap or hand-drying facilties.