"AnthonyL" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:27:44 +0100, "Norman Wells"
wrote:
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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I'm very surprised the powers that be did not record the last few years of bell
ringing and just install big speakers in the bell tower and flog the bells off
for
scrap.

Indeed. It raises the interesting point too that, if people like bells so much,
why
don't they just buy a recording and listen to it at home in private? There's no
need for it to be inflicted on all and sundry.

If I liked gangsta rap, should I be allowed to broadcast it from a tower as loud
as
bells and for the same duration? Or would I be expected to indulge that little
peccadillo at home and in private?

I don't see any difference.

If you and your ancestors had been playing gangster rap in set
locations for the past 400yrs and some jobsworth said shut up because
your new neighbour has raised a complaint you would be on here moaning
about your rights.

And he would be saying, perfectly reasonably, 'at last we have a law that means
these people who have been a bloody nuisance can be stopped'.

I don't see why causing a nuisance over any period of time should entitle you to
continue it.