Moon River in east Hull was found to pose an imminent risk to public health and an order for immediate closure was secured

A Chinese takeaway with flies seen crawling on its food has been slapped with a huge £25,000 fine.

Moon River, in Holderness Road, east Hull, was deemed as an imminent risk to public health and an order for immediate closure was secured.

An investigation found cooked foods were stored in close proximity to raw food creating a cross contamination risk.

Food was also found stored in dirty cardboard boxes, according to Hull Live.

The takeaway was first shut down using a Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Notice (HEPN) on March 29 last year after an inspection found a series of potentially dangerous hygiene breaches.

It had not long bounced back from a previous zero hygiene rating – gaining a top rating of five – before falling foul once more.

The visit in March by Hull City Council inspectors found a series of damning breaches.

They included:

being "filthy" throughout

evidence of cross contamination from raw foods to cooked foods in both storage and preparation