MANAGEMENT at a bar once owned by The Fixer and Shameless star Jody Latham have been told to keep the noise down.

Bosses at what used to be Jack’s Bar, in Gisburn Road, Barrowford, were ordered to stop annoying neighbours with loud music, or face another appearance before Pendle council’s licensing committee.

The bar is now known as The Residence, and is being run by Craig Bradshaw and Chuko Odudu, who run a pub of the same name in Blackburn.

The Punch Taverns venue was up before the committee yesterday accused of breaching licensing conditions by allowing people outside after 10pm and causing noise nuisance to neighbours.

Peter Gray, who lives opposite the pub in Gisburn Road, said: “I have a catalogue of incidents where our evening has been ruined by noise.

“Sometimes it can be Friday and Saturday night and that wrecks the whole weekend. I work hard for my free time and work all week only to have my weekends ruined by the noise.”

Mr Gray did concede that noise had improved since the new licensees took over, but there had been three incidents recorded in the last two weekends.

Laura Hobson, legal representative for the bar’s new management, said that live entertainment was still planned for Friday and Saturday, and possibly Thursday as well.

She said: “We accept there have been issues in the past but the new owners are keen to learn from that and work with neighbours to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

The committee told the venue to carry out a noise survey and fit a noise limiter within the next two months, fit signs to the outside smoking area asking people to keep the noise down, and make regular announcements near closing time asking for people to leave quietly.