NEIGHBOURS banned from playing loud music in their home set up a karaoke machine in the garden.

Blackburn magistrates were told that their next-door-neighbour could not hear her own television because of the noise.

The couple living at the house claimed they were attending to a burst water pipe and blamed their children for the noise.

But a police sergeant who attended looked out of a bedroom window and saw Tina Chadwick lying in a paddling pool and Martin Kelly drinking out of a can of lager.

Chadwick, 33, and Kelly, 37, of Hamilton Street, Blackburn, admitted breach of an anti-social behaviour order and were bailed for a pre-sentence report.

Philippa White, prosecuting, said the ASBO was made in 2005 and the defendants had both been convicted of one breach since. She said the officer who attended stayed for 20 minutes and there was a constant stream of loud music from the garden.

Rachel Adamson, defending, said the couple had five children and it wasn't easy to keep them quiet. On the day in question, a pipe had burst and water started coming through the ceiling.