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Neil Shaw

Council issues rooster with noise abatement order

A crowing cockerel has been served with a noise abatement notice - asking his owner to reduce his decibels. Rocky the male chicken has fallen fowl of his local council - after a complaint from a neighbour.

His siren call apparently ruffled the feathers of a local who complained about the noise to the local authority. Owner Julie Smith received a noise abatement notice from the council's Environmental Protection team.

The letter instructed her that she must 'take action' to reduce the decibels. Despite owning chickens, ducks and cockerels for 15 years at her home in the market town of Framlingham, Suffolk, she may now be forced to surrender Rocky.

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