A live band concert to raise funds for cancer research will go ahead next weekend - despite an objection from a couple living nearby who said they had been unable to hear the television because of noise at previous events.

The objectors living near the Cricketers Arms at Baildon wrote to Bradford Council's licensing panel saying the music had been so loud it was impossible to hear even with the windows shut.

The concerts have been held one day in August for the past five years but for the first time licensee Sheila Noble and her husband Mick asked for an entertainments licence for a two-day event next Saturday and Sunday.

Mrs Noble said money from the event would go to cancer research in memory of a popular customer Harry Watts, who died two years ago. The regulars have also raised £1,000 for the charity Bosom Friends after another customer, Jackie Bentley, died of breast cancer.

Mrs Noble told the panel the event on the green outside the pub was a community highlight and there had been no objections in previous years.

"It has become a 'look forward to' event in many people's diaries," she added.

She said the public address speakers were positioned to direct the noise into open land and she was surprised by the complaint because inside the pub, even with the doors and windows open, it was difficult to hear the bands.

Councillor Tony Niland said he was concerned about health and safety if large numbers of people were attracted by the warm weather but Mr Noble said in the past it had just been the local community.

The licence was granted from noon to 10pm on both days but chairman Councillor Martin Smith told the couple: "It is in your best interests to make sure this first two-day event is well controlled.

"We are pleased you are going to help cancer research."

The panel made a condition that a qualified first aider should be present at the event and the public address system should be directed away from houses.