A COUPLE who shared a passionate kiss on the dancefloor of their local were ordered to stop as it might offend other drinkers – just days after the pub hosted a visit by two topless glamour models.

Clair Jackson, 30, cannot understand how kissing husband Chris, 36, could upset the regulars at The Deacon, in Darlington, when they were seemingly so untroubled by the Sunday Sport Topless Roadshow, dubbed “Bappy Hour”.

Despite his apparent aversion to an amorous snog, landlord Barry Dodsworth helped organise the Sunday Sport event a week earlier when the two topless women, who normally grace the pages of the racy tabloid, chatted with locals and even served their beer.

Mrs Jackson, of Bates Avenue, Darlington, was so outraged, she even tried to organise a mass snog-a-thon protest at the pub in Cleasby View, Branksome, via social networking site Facebook.

“I was merely sharing a kiss with my husband. I wouldn’t say it was all that passionate,” she said. “It was more than a peck, but we were hardly all over each other.

“I just feel victimised. The week before they had topless women wandering around the bar and now a kiss between a man and wife is something which could offend the other locals.”

Mr Dodsworth said: “We put the Sunday Sport night on but we advertised it for weeks before. If any of our customers wanted to stay away then they would have been able to make that choice.

“It’s not like Clair was sat quietly in a darkened corner of the bar. She and her husband were in full view of everybody really getting into each other. I don’t mind people kissing in my pub and Clair is welcome back anytime – but I run a tight ship here and I can’t be having things like that going on.”

Sunday Sport editor Nick Appleyard said: “We had no idea that sending the Sunday Sport Topless Roadshow to The Deacon for Bappy Hour would excite the regulars so much they’d start snogging each other in the public bar.

“This lady sounds like just the sort of fun-loving person we love to feature in the Sunday Sport.”