Ya, I found that is the only tactic that works. If you call the
police, they will take their sweet time to respond and at most they
will only "advice" the neighbour to be considerate. If you call the
Town Council, you might get a visit from IDIOTS like I did who
asked me many times if I am sure if the noise comes from my
neighbour's flat as "ah, you know ah, in the night when it is
quiet, you might think the sound comes from this flat but maybe it
comes from many floors away. We can never tell. And you know in the
newspaper got report people hear sound of marbles rolling in the
night but there's no one. I not saying it is ghosts who we don't
know if its really your neighbour making the noise" - ????
So what to do? I had to visit other neighbours and ask them if they
were also bothered by my nuisance neighbour (and he llikes to drill
things, drag furniture about, bang stuff around at 3am almost every
day!). After I "shamed" him and he kena lecture by many neighbours
then he stopped his noctural activites. But of course, your
neigbhour might retaliate in other ways. Like mine did. His
children would vomit at my front gate, throw stuff, use a football
and bang the walls as they past by the flat, etc. Until I filmed a
few such activites - one with the mother standing there with a boh
chap look - and threatened to broadcast this with an explaination
that these acts are done by children of parents who would do "home
repairs" at 3am in the morning! For more than a year now, I have
had uninterrupted peaceful sleep! The wife also greets me when she
sees me (but she told another neighbour that I'm so fierce so
surely no man will want me ... ah, but her standard of 'man' like
her husband, yucks, I also dun want 
Its not that you want to be nasty, but to some people you have to
be very garang otherwise you suffer.
