A PUB manager is calling for a united front to stamp out late- night rowdyism in central Middlesbrough.

John Lancaster, general manager of the town's Park Gates Leisure, said: "We all have parents and grandparents and we don't want people to feel they are prisoners in their own homes.

"I would like to see these issues addressed, but it needs the whole community; there is a social issue here.

"I would like to see the residents' associations get together with all the commercial properties, the licensed trade and the fast-food operators in the area and the police and try to solve the problem.''

His appeal came the same day Cleveland Police appealed for witnesses to a fight between revellers and bouncers from the firm's Dickens Inn in Southfield Road, Middlesbrough, on Sunday night.

Residents objected yesterday to an application before Middlesbrough councillors for late- night extension at the Dickens on a Sunday, saying they had had enough of drunken rowdyism, noise and litter from people leaving pubs in the area.

Councillors agreed to renew the pub's music, singing and dancing licence for its ground floor, but refused to extend the licence on its first floor to 12.30am on a Sunday.

Ward Councillor Barry Coppinger said: "This is a victory for the residents and a tribute to all the hard work put in by residents as a whole.''

Park Gates Leisure said it would appeal.