A NIGHTCLUB will find out whether it will be forced to close after a series of incidents including a stabbing.

Licensing chiefs will meet today to decide whether to strip Junk in Southampton of its licence after police called for a review.

The review was launched after two people were stabbed outside the London Road nightspot earlier this year, although club bosses insist they have made a string of improvements and said it was "one of the safest" venues in the city.

As previously reported, a police report contains a list of 38 incidents recorded at the venue between January 2015 and March this year, which include 23 assaults, four drug offences and 12 antisocial behaviour and six public order offences.

It also contains details about the stabbing incident on January 22, when two customers received stab wounds and a third man was found outside with a head wound, telling police he had been attacked inside.

The police report called for the licence to be revoked or the entire management team to be replaced, while the venue could have its opening hours slashed from 4am to 2am if the licence remains in place.

After the review was launched, club director Wes Leigh told the Daily Echo: "We have made improvements and done everything the police have asked and above and beyond.

"We are now one of the safest venues in Southampton."

A petition calling on the council to save the venue, described as an "institution for dance music", from closure has reached 2,683 signatures.

Five residents have written in support of revoking the licence ahead of today's meeting at the Civic Centre.

Polygon resident Stewart Morris raised revellers urinating on residential streets, while Lorraine Barter raised a long list of criminal damage caused in the early hours of the morning in the area.

Denis Bundy, manager of the Conroy Court Residents Association, said he had been "threatened with physical assault by someone using the porch as a toilet", adding that he had also witnessed "young people including girls relieving themselves in the main London Road at well past 3am and at times vomiting anywhere they chose".

He added: "I have seen young people literally barely able to walk as they leave Junk".

Resident Megan Cartwright said "the particularly late opening hours of this club undoubtedly contribute heavily to the antisocial behaviour we suffer in the very early hours of the morning".

She added: "A venue that has dealt so poorly with such a high number of incidents in recent months and is clearly of great concern to the local police, who are spending a large number of hours dealing with the consequences of this club should surely be reassessed in its right to continue to operate under the existing conditions that have allowed the current situation to evolve."