A CHEF who pulled down the trousers of a 19-year-old in a pub has been ordered to sign the sex offenders' register, The York Press reports.

Paul Andrew Peggs, of Newby Street, Ripon, appeared before York Crown Court on Tuesday and admitted pulling down the young man's trousers, but denied touching him when he did so.

The court heard the 19-year-old man was drinking with friends in The Navigation pub in Ripon on January 8 this year, when he and a female friend went into the outdoor smoking area at about 1.30am.

There, they were approached by Peggs, 41, who commented on the colour of the teenager's hair, then asked what his natural colour was. The court heard Peggs then lifted up the man's shirt and grabbed his jeans, pulling them down to expose his pubic hair.

The court heard the victim pulled his clothes back on and sat down to prevent further embarrassment, then felt "angry and upset", about what had happened and the landlord and landlady noticed him crying.

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A NEWSPAPER advert taken out by a shopkeeper featuring a golliwog holding a glass of ginger beer has been banned by the advertising watchdog, reports the Bournemouth Echo.

Viv Endecott, of Corfe Castle's Ginger Pop Shop, placed the advert in the Purbeck Gazette newspaper earlier this summer.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which received two complaints about the ad, banned it because it would likely cause "serious or widespread offence."

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The ASA said many people were likely to view the character as representing negative racial stereotypes, and that its prominent inclusion in a press advert was likely to cause serious or widespread offence.