Hotel owners are fighting to silence a 150-year-old town clock after a flood of 'negative reviews' from guests lying awake at night.
The Wynnstay Hotel in Machynlleth, Powys, has been inundated with complaints from tourists kept awake by the clock's quarter-hourly bells, which ring every 15 minutes, even through the night.
Bosses want the bells in the market town clock tower to be switched off between 11.30pm and 7am after guests raised concerns about the noise.
After sitting silent for three years, the tower, which sits yards away from the business, was finally repaired in 2023 and now chimes every 15 minutes for 24 hours a day.
Owners Huw Morgan and Gail Jenkins have written to local authorities urging them to pause the chimes, claiming to have received 'negative reviews' due to the clock.
