HUMOUR

The bells, the bells

In another headline-grabbing intervention against a world gone mad, the communities secretary and faith minister Eric Pickles has issued ‘common sense’ guidance to councils to prevent unsympathetic incomers silencing the time-honoured sound of church bells and village clocks.

In another headline-grabbing intervention against a world gone mad, the communities secretary and faith minister Eric Pickles has issued ‘common sense' guidance to councils to prevent unsympathetic incomers silencing the time-honoured sound of church bells and village clocks.

The response followed news coverage of a legal dispute in leafy Ash, Surrey.

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