The boss of a new Bradford cabaret bar has pledged to increase security after a clubber was struck with a glass.

Police are studying CCTV footage from inside the Lingards club in Westgate, Bradford, after a 21-year-old man suffered a wound to the forehead, needing 15 stitches, in the weekend attack.

The incident, at around 1.30am on Sunday, happened just a week after three doormen at the club needed hospital treatment after they were allegedly attacked with swords outside the entrance by two men who had been refused entry.

Today Dean Loynes, leaseholder of Lingards Cabaret Bar, which opened only a month ago, said he was trying to keep security as tight as possible at the venue. He said: "I have a full CCTV system, with 16 cameras in the club and two outside, a registered security team and a membership scheme which requires members to have two forms of identification, two photographs and two items of correspondence with their mailing address on.

"We are as strict about the membership as we can be, but you cannot legislate for someone hitting somebody else. I have told the security staff that they have to be more high profile."

Mr Loynes said he was also considering the introduction of plastic glasses.

The former Lingards club, which was closed three years ago, was reopened as Lingards Cabaret Bar last month.

Bradford magistrates granted Mr Loynes, who is chairman of the Bradford Inner City Licensing Association, a liquor licence for the city centre venue in February and he was then granted a special certificate to serve alcohol after 11pm.

West Yorkshire Police did not oppose either licence application. But senior operational officers are discussing the incident with the licensing department.

Chief Inspector Simon Atkin, of Bradford South Police Operational Support, said: "These kind of incidents do occur in night clubs across the country and we don't want to blow it out of proportion. We are not getting a lot of violent crimes of this nature at this moment. But we need to make sure specific incidents of violent crime like this are looked at."

The club is owned by company Hairy Melon, with Mr Loynes the leaseholder and Gary Woodall, chairman of Halifax licensees association, as manager.

l Police have arrested a second man in connection with an alleged sword attack at Lingards. The man, 23, from Holme Wood was being questioned by detectives at Bradford Central Police Station today. Barry Nunney, 20, of Southampton Street, Wapping, Bradford, was remanded in custody by the city's magistrates last week charged with wounding and possessing an offensive weapon.