Man’s £4,000 fine for noisy rooster leaves neighbours cock-a-hoop

New Forest council says Harold Brown’s bird created ‘unacceptable levels of noise’ that disturbed people’s sleepSubjecting your neighbours to early starts is nothing to crow about, the owner of a cockerel has discovered to his cost.Harold Brown has been fined nearly £4,000 after his neighbours cried fowl over his rooster shaking its tail feathers from 5am every morning for years. Continue reading...