A COMPANY that owns a high-profile chain of hair salons in south Hampshire has bought a table-dancing club in Southampton for £1m.

McKinlay Group, which owns the Storm Hair outlets in Southampton, West End and Winchester, has made a successful bid for For Your Eyes Only.

The nightspot venue in London Road, which features scantily clad women dancing, is to undergo a revamp in a bid to attract corporate clients.

Southampton-based McKinlay plans to operate the club under its current guise until the summer. It will then close for a £250,000 refurbishment, which McKinlay claims will see it rank alongside some of London's hottest, most contemporary nightspots.

McKinlay says the aim of the new club, which will undergo a name change as well as an image facelift, is to update and transform the art of table dancing. It believes it will be "classier" and "more cosmopolitan".