Accept noises or else please leave (From Dorset Echo)

Accept noises or else please leave

10:39am Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Your letters

I REFER to the article concerning the gagging order for the cockerel (Echo, February 1).

Normal residents who live in the rural villages in the English countryside, accept all natural noises as part of their life.

These noises include crowing cockerels, braying donkeys, bleating sheep, cattle lowing, barking foxes, hooting owls, calling and fighting birds/seagulls, farm mach-inery, traffic and church bells.

All of these mark an established way of life for countryside residents.

If people move out from cities and large towns to reside in the rural countryside they must ex-pect to share and live a normal countryside life, which includes accepting the noises listed as but a few.

Should the new countryside residents be unable to accept country life, they have no right to change the standard of lives of those who live in their proximity.

Far better they return to whence they came, for the peace of those who enjoy normal countryside lives. Such persons are unwanted within our communities.

P C Tambling, Sutton Road, Sutton Poyntz