shoeshine
13-03-2007, 10:56
Just to lighten up your day when you're stuck in the office on a beautiful spring day! :)
from today's TimesOnline
Leo is the ultimate neighbour from hell. At 3am he regularly wakes up the neighbourhood with carousing and the only way to silence his dawn chorus may be to wring his neck.
But for Colin Hill, who owns the pedigree White Sussex cockerel, complaints from his neighbours about the noise fall on deaf ears.
He has accused his local council of being out of touch with rural life and said that people expected to hear cockerels crowing at daybreak in the countryside.
Mr Hill, 37, was fined £175 and ordered to pay an extra £75 in costs at Market Harborough magistrates’ courts for failing to quieten Leo in breach of a noise abatement order.
Noise experts from Daventry District Council listened into the crowing and found he crowed 20 times in 20 minutes.
The noise has upset residents of the housing estate in East Farndon, Northamptonshire, where Mr Hill, a former gamekeeper, keeps a few hens and two cockerels as a hobby.
Mr. Hill lives in a semi-detached house on a normal housing estate.
So, which one has to "go", the Owner, the Cockerel, or the Council Officials? :hihi:
Full Story here (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/public/article1505714.ece)
from today's TimesOnline
Leo is the ultimate neighbour from hell. At 3am he regularly wakes up the neighbourhood with carousing and the only way to silence his dawn chorus may be to wring his neck.
But for Colin Hill, who owns the pedigree White Sussex cockerel, complaints from his neighbours about the noise fall on deaf ears.
He has accused his local council of being out of touch with rural life and said that people expected to hear cockerels crowing at daybreak in the countryside.
Mr Hill, 37, was fined £175 and ordered to pay an extra £75 in costs at Market Harborough magistrates’ courts for failing to quieten Leo in breach of a noise abatement order.
Noise experts from Daventry District Council listened into the crowing and found he crowed 20 times in 20 minutes.
The noise has upset residents of the housing estate in East Farndon, Northamptonshire, where Mr Hill, a former gamekeeper, keeps a few hens and two cockerels as a hobby.
Mr. Hill lives in a semi-detached house on a normal housing estate.
So, which one has to "go", the Owner, the Cockerel, or the Council Officials? :hihi:
Full Story here (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/public/article1505714.ece)