A council has ordered a man to move a tiny wind chime from his back garden following an investigation that cost more than £1,000.
David Bavington was stunned to receive an official letter claiming that the 1in- diameter chime was a 'statutory nuisance' following a complaint.
And he was warned he had to take it down - or be served with a noise abatement order and face legal action.
Ironically Mr Bavington, 57, and his wife Sheila bought the chime to create a feeling of calm while they were sitting in the garden of their £300,000 detached home in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, with noisy airliners flying overhead on final approach to Coventry airport just over a mile away.
But, instead, it has landed them in a two-month legal row with officials at Rugby Borough Council, which has spent £1,000 writing letters, phoning the couple and sending two officers out to listen to the chime because of a complaint that it tinkled too loudly in windy weather.
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