PARENTS have been angered by a decision to cut back their children's music rehearsal time - because they are too loud.

The teenagers, aged between 15 and 19 years, pay by the hour to practise their music at the Jubilee Community Centre in New Marske during the day on Saturdays.

But last week the centre's committee reduced their playing time from five hours to one-and-a-half hours.

The mother of one of the musicians, Lynn Woodcock, said:"One and a half hours just isn't enough. It takes them that long to set up the drum kit and the guitars.

"We feel quite disillusioned because our kids are using their own initiative and doing something positive with their time in an area where there isn't much for teenagers to do.

"They even moved to a smaller room on the other side of the hall when someone complained about noise."

But Sheila Argument, chairman of the hall's committee, said: "We received a petition with ten signatures from the residents of Pear Tree Court and also from a gentleman who lives next to the hall who has attended two of our meetings and thinks the music is far too loud.

"It is a community hall and we want all aspects of the community to be able to use it, especially as it is not used during the day, but we have to take residents' concerns into consideration."