The idiot moving in next to a church seems to be a common occurence. We came to the compromise of practising once a week within certain hours, one individual would be stood outside the church with a watch, and would go barmy if the slightest noise was made a second after 9pm.

Local councils? The chairperson of ours is the wife of someone quite prominent in the local building trade. Many of their friends have got away with closing pubs illegally to become dwellings, building houses on questionable plots of land etc etc. Coincidence?

On the other side of the coin there is the builder who, in a mjaor revamp of a house wanted to use cotswold stone (in keeping with the area), was made to use concrete t blocks, as this was in keeping with the original structure. Grrr. Where is the common sense?