Veneto court bans urban cockerels

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 25 - A court in Veneto had banned noisy cockerels from a farmyard on the outskirts of a town near Venice within earshot of urban residents.
    The Veneto regional administrative court (TAR) upheld rulings by Venice city council and a local environmental health agency saying the cocks' crows were detrimental to the health of the outlying inhabitants of Mestre.
    The farmer has been banned from keeping cocks but can keep hens - no more than 50 at a time, the TAR ruled. (ANSA).