Birkenhead: Ding-dong over clocktower chime that is 'too loud'

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Birkenhead: Ding-dong over clocktower chime that is 'too loud'
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Wirral Council has changed how often a clocktower rings due to a noise complaint.

A council has decided to break with a 137-year tradition and limit the chimes of a town's clocktower to once an hour after a noise complaint from a nearby resident.

In a statement Wirral Council said the times were changed after its own environmental health officer found the sounds were a "statutory noise nuisance". A resident who lived nearby complained about the volume and frequency of the quarter-hourly tolling of the bells, prompting a council investigation.

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