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

Stock image of a rooster. Local people said the crowing regularly affected their sleep from as early as 5am each day. Photograph: Animal Photography/Alamy

Subjecting 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.