A company that runs an Indian restaurant and takeaway has been fined after its owners admitted a series of food hygiene related charges.

Environmental health officers prosecuted the owners of The Nabab Indian Restaurant, on the Isle of Wight, for seven food hygiene offences.

Jila Miah, Director of Cookenden (Isle of Wight) Limited, pleaded guilty on behalf of the company to all the charges and the business has been ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling £5679.16.

It comes after environmental health officers carried out an unannounced routine food hygiene inspection at the premises in James Street, Newport.

During the visit, a number of food hygiene offences were identified.

These included failure to ensure that the premises was kept clean, failure to ensure that food was protected from cross contamination and failing to ensure that food handlers were trained.

The food business operator of the premises had previously been warned about similar matters on a number of occasions and had received coaching by officers of the department in the Safer Food Better Business Pack, a food safety management pack produced by the Food Standards Agency.

Amanda Gregory, Environmental Health Manager, said: "It is very disappointing that this establishment has been given assistance to comply with the legislation in order to ensure that the food is safe to eat, and yet still failed to comply.

"The Environmental Health team are both educators and enforcers and work with businesses to secure compliance wherever possible. Unfortunately, in some cases the only option left is to prosecute"

In August, sister company Cookenden (Newport) Limited was fined over £5500 after its owners pleaded guilty to several charges also relating to food hygiene at its Tamarind Indian restaurant, also in Newport.