A COUNCILLOR is to face a standards board hearing next week after an alleged row over a cockerel.

Holland Residents’ Association councillor Joy Broderick stepped in following a dispute between neighbours over the noisy bird last summer.

But cockerel owner Elizabeth Lubin, of Fleetwood Avenue, Holland-on-Sea, complained Mrs Broderick had breached councillors’ code of conduct.

The charges include bullying and harassment.

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