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  • Church bells are silenced in fear of European Union law

    10/16/2002 6:23:04 PM PDT · by Glutton · 23 replies · 155+ views
    the Daily Telegraph ^ | 17 Oct 02 | By Richard Savill
    Complaints by new residents have silenced the church bells in a small country town after the vicar feared the chimes could be breaking European law. The bells at St Mary's Church in Totnes, Devon - England's second oldest borough - have sounded every quarter of an hour since a civic subscription scheme paid for the clock to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. But a small group of residents - believed to be newcomers - have protested that the chimes stop them sleeping at night. "Amongst the old Totnesians, there is a certain amount of fury that I have...