An MP is claiming a temporary victory after a shop he has campaigned against announced it will be closing its doors for three months.

The news comes as Tom Brake MP, declared his petition to get store Your High to stop selling cannabis seeds and growing equipment, had been signed by over 1,400 people.

The crusade against the shop by the MP for Carshalton and Wallington began when it opened its doors in May.

Tony Bennett, the owner of the store on Stafford Road in Wallington, denied the shops closure has anything to do with Mr Brake’s petition.

He said: "We closing Your High, but only until January when we will reopen. In the meantime we will be opening as a firework shop.

"It has nothing to do with Brake. It is down to the simple fact that we cannot run the two businesses side by side."

Mr Brake was less than happy at the plans for the shop, but did welcome the temporary closure.

He said: "This is a temporary reprieve. We will be hoping to make the closure permanent. Many local people will not be particularly happy at the prospect of a firework shop opening instead."

Since the campaign against Your High was started by Mr Brake, shop owner Mr Bennett has made changes to opening hours to try and remedy criticism over the shops close proximity to a school.

He said: "I don’t open until ten o’clock now so children on the way to school don’t see in, and I close when they are leaving, from three until half past. I do not sell any drugs - I am performing a legal operation."

Mr Brake said: "The changing of the opening hours is a minor improvement, but what residents want is closure. The fact that it is so near a school, is an issue, but I also believe the law is wrong. This kind of shop that sells equipment, solely intended take illegal drugs, should be illegal. It is sending out the wrong message to children."

Mr Brake recently delivered his petition to Tim Hollis - the senior officer in the Association of Chief Police Officers, tasked with reviewing the police approach to cannabis.

Mr Brake said: "Mr Hollis informed me that some action as been taken against a shop in Derbyshire, so I am looking into that also."