Shout it from the rooftops: the noise pollution in towns and cities is killing us | Coco Khan

The din of Britain's conurbations affects poorer people disproportionately, blighting lives in cheaply built homes Two years ago, my most lovingly overbearing and melodramatic auntie came to stay at my flat on an east London high road. Each morning she would emerge, fully dressed except for the eye mask left on her forehead like Chekhov's gun, taking a few moments to chitchat before erupting: "Aren't you going to ask how I slept? Just terrible! Sirens! Buses all night, driving sinners around. Th...