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Spanish piano player cleared in noise case

PUIGCERDA, Spain, Nov. 27 (UPI) — A Spanish court acquitted a concert pianist who could have faced prison for posing a noise nuisance to a neighbor.

The Puigcerda woman, identified in court papers as Laia M., was cleared of charges, including posing a noise nuisance, crim

KOLKATA: A couple – one of them a heart patient – was allegedly assaulted by members of a club for protesting against blaring microphones and bursting of fire crackers at South 24-Parganas’ Kakdwip on Monday.

The victims said they get no help on dialing 100. Later, however, police recorded their complaint and took them to hospital.

Srikanta Diolui, 56, was discharged from hospital recently. The bangle trader and his wife Sovarani fled to Diamond Harbour after the assault. Dolui has been admitted to the subdivisional hospital there.

They lodged a complaint on Sunday with Kakdwip police. But this only escalated their trouble. The club members allegedly kept assaulting them. Finally, they fled and took refuge in the house of a relative in Diamond Habour.

Dolui’s wife Sovarani said they kept calling 100, but no one took the calls. Eventually, police got in touch with them, recorded a complaint against 16 club members, including the secretary. They couple was taken to hospital, where Dolui’s condition deteriorated. He was shifted to Diamond Harbour Subdivisional Hospital.

inal offenses against the environment and inflicting psychological trauma, thinkSpain reported Wednesday.
A woman in a neighboring apartment had complained of suffering “psychological damage,” including panic attacks, anxiety and sleep disorders because of Laia’s heavy piano practice schedule.
However, the court sided with the 36-year-old pianist, who told the court she and her family had taken steps to soundproof Laia’s practice room and there was no evidence of any connection between the piano music and the neighbor’s health issues.
The court’s ruling said noise complaints had “gone too far” in this instance and slammed the state prosecution service’s proposed 7 1/2-year jail sentence as “out of proportion.”
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Assault over noise protest

KOLKATA: A couple – one of them a heart patient – was allegedly assaulted by members of a club for protesting against blaring microphones and bursting of fire crackers at South 24-Parganas’ Kakdwip on Monday.

The victims said they get no help on dialing 100. Later, however, police recorded their complaint and took them to hospital.

Srikanta Diolui, 56, was discharged from hospital recently. The bangle trader and his wife Sovarani fled to Diamond Harbour after the assault. Dolui has been admitted to the subdivisional hospital there.

They lodged a complaint on Sunday with Kakdwip police. But this only escalated their trouble. The club members allegedly kept assaulting them. Finally, they fled and took refuge in the house of a relative in Diamond Habour.

Dolui’s wife Sovarani said they kept calling 100, but no one took the calls. Eventually, police got in touch with them, recorded a complaint against 16 club members, including the secretary. They couple was taken to hospital, where Dolui’s condition deteriorated. He was shifted to Diamond Harbour Subdivisional Hospital.

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Noise dispute over third runway revives

Noise dispute over third runway revives

An ongoing dispute between residents living near Suvarnabhumi airport and airport management has reared up again since the announcement of plans for a third and fourth runway. Residents have complained about noise pollution and other issues since the international airport opened in September 2006.

Thanaphan Suksa-ard, an academic with the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion who has studied the impact of the airport on the residents, said the issues have not been resolved and yet the Airports of Thailand (AoT) will press on with the additional runways, which stand to affect an even larger number of people.

The researcher has urged the AoT to clearly declare areas which would be affected by the runways and to work with City Hall to prohibit the creation of new residential projects there, otherwise the problems would only intensify.

The areas expected to be affected by the airport’s noise pollution should be designated as industrial zones instead, Mr Thanaphan said. “I’ve proposed this to the AoT, but so far no progress has been made and those areas of land have already been bought by property developers,” he said.

A few years before the airport opened, residential projects sprung up around the airport and buyers were lured into purchasing the properties. Advertising for the developments boasted of the benefits of easy access to the airport without saying anything about the hidden problems.

A recent foreign study showed people living near airports ran a higher risk of heart disease and this tendency was being observed among the residents near Suvarnabhumi, Mr Thanaphan said.

Suvarnabhumi airport director Somchai Sawasdipol said 90% of about 15,000 people affected by noise pollution had been compensated and only about 1,000 affected people had yet to be paid due to problems with proving their ownership of the affected properties.

“About 4,000 households are expected to be affected by the construction of the third runway and about 7.9 billion baht has been set aside as compensation for them,” said Mr Somchai, who assured that when the new runways are in use, the noise pollution caused by Runways 1 and 2 should decrease.

Runway 3 would bring about better management of air traffic at Suvarnabhumi, he said, adding that construction of this runway would be complete no later than 2018.

But Wanchart Manasombat, a leader of a group of residents affected by the airport’s noise pollution, was not convinced. He said the additional runways would only help cut the frequency of aircraft in the short term, as the numbers of flights in and out of the airport would continue to grow. Before the AoT builds the new runways, he said, he wants full compensation to be paid to 14,000 affected people who he claims have only received about half of the amount to which they were entitled.

Tomorrow: Runway crack solutions

Published: 26/09/2012 at 09:14 AM
Newspaper section: News

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