THE continuing saga of the toiletless café in Broad Street needs to end today, according to town Constable Simon Crowcroft.

After two months of discussion about the facilities needed for Café Toulouse, he wants Health and Social Services to meet today and give permission for the café to open.

Owner Sean Murphy has invested £70,000 in the project and has been paying staff for the past seven weeks.

The café has been built in what were formerly public toilets, but has been refused permission to open because Health say that it needs on-site toilets for staff.

Mr Murphy says that the banks which have given him loans on the basis that he would open in July were ‘getting twitchy’, and his other business, the Lamplighter pub in Mulcaster Street, would start to suffer as a result of the delay.

Mr Murphy says that there are around 40 other premises in the Island which are on a similar scale and do not have staff and customer toilets.

He said: ‘I am really cheesed off because everybody else is opening and doesn’t have to do what I have to.

What’s different about me?’