The Queen's Head in Box will be rocking for charity on bank holiday Monday.

The annual Box Rocks music event is being held in aid of the Forever Friends space to grow' campaign for a bigger neo-natal ward at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

Eight bands will take to the stage in the marathon eight hour event which is being held between 2pm and 10.30pm.

The first Box Rocks was held 15 years ago but for the past five years landlord Dean Creighton has been supporting Forever Friends Appeal campaigns.

He said: "Box Rocks is becoming a tradition and after the great time had by all at last year's event, we are all looking forward to this year's antics."

Charlie Burke, events fundraiser for The Forever Friends Appeal, said: "This is going to be my first year at Box Rocks and it's on my birthday, so I am really looking forward to what I have been told is a great day. "

Local bands will form the lineup for Box Rocks including The Rocky Horrors, Troy Ellis and the Longshots.

Entry will be £2 for adults and £1 for children.

The Forever Friends Appeal is raising £4.5 million for a new neo-natal ward to help care for the 500 babies born prematurely or seriously ill every year. For details visit www.foreverfriendsappeal.co.uk or www.boxrocks.biz TWO sisters in Corsham have shown their support for the Bath Royal United Hospital's space to grow' campaign by cutting off their hair to raise money.

Kisha and Shanine Cox lost nearly 20 inches of hair between them and sold it to raise money for the Forever Friends Appeal .

The girls, from Arnolds Mead, Corsham, sent their bundles of hair off to the Locks of Love charity which uses the hair to provide wigs for children suffering from hair loss.

The money will be sent back in the next two weeks and will then be hand delivered to the Royal United Hospital in Bath by the girls and their mother Sarah Cox.

Kisha, 12, who goes to Corsham Comprehensive School said: "I preferred it long because I can't play with it or plait it but it will grow.

"My mum said when it grows back we can do it again, it gives me a happy feeling."

The girls had their hair chopped off after growing it for over three years. Kisha said: "They put it in two pony tails and just cut them off then they styled it."

Shanine, ten, who goes to Corsham Regis School, said she would do it all again.

"My friends think it is a bit weird but they have got used to it now. It was my mum's idea but I was a bit scared," she said.

The sisters are not yet sure how much their sacrifice will have raised.