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A shop has been allowed to keep its licence despite employing an illegal worker – who claims he was paid as little as £6 an hour and sometimes in food. The man had been working at Dover International Food Centre in Pencester Road when immigration officials swooped last year. The licence holder, Ms Yilson Sayin, has since paid a hefty £15,000 fine to the Home Office. The details emerged at a Dover District Council licensing sub-committee last week. Councillors heard that only one person was hired at the grocery store against immigration laws. Rather than revoking the licence, it was modified to…

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