Town mayor David Selby said councillors had agreed to switch off the chimes overnight to ... unbearable noise from the town clock that rings every 15 minutes 24 hours a day".

At Lanhydrock, near Bodmin, which is run by the National Trust, the end of BST means Faye Rason has to wind 20 clocks back an hour - a process ... in 1740 because it chimes eight bells every ...