noise
Sleepless in Switzerland: could quieter church bells be the answer?
When it comes to hot button topics in Switzerland, noisy church bells are right up at the top of the list, along with rubbish collection and late trains.
Residents of ‘noisiest city in Switzerland’ asked to record din
Federal technology institute EPFL has developed a new app for residents of the city and canton of Geneva to record the sounds they hear around them in order to help evaluate the region’s quality of life.
Court sides with chickens in dispute over noisy henhouse
A court in the canton of Vaud has ordered a man to pay more than 36,000 francs in court costs after it rejected his complaint that his neighbours’ chickens made too much noise.
Farmer loses appeal in row over noisy cow bells
A farmer in the Zurich Oberland has lost his latest appeal against neighbours who demanded he remove the bells from his cows because they made too much noise.
'Oh God — I'm coming': noise row goes public
A neighbour in a housing complex in the canton of Aargau was so annoyed by a couple’s noisy love-making he went public with his discontent in a bid to embarrass them into making less of a racket at night.