Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Let the church bells ring, court says

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/church-bell-ruling,0,1641198.story

[Chicago Tribune] 12 Aug 2008--A town hall in southern England has ruled that its 14th century village church has just as much right to ring its bells as the villagers have to operate their noisy lawnmowers and hedge trimmers on Sundays.

Some residents in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, had griped for months that the racket from peal practice at St. Peter and St. Paul Anglican Church -- some of it lasting nearly three hours -- was disturbing their weekend tranquillity, and they wanted it stopped.

But the local South Coastal District Council, noting that the same residents rarely complained about the din raised by their own grass-cutting and garden-trimming activities, said locals shouldn't be complaining about the church's bellringers.

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