Geneva - Bells clanging around the necks of dairy cows grazing lazily on an emerald green meadow may sound idyllic, but if you live next door, it can be a noisy nuisance. That was the finding of a ...

That is really what Aarwangen's cowbell row is about. In last month's parliamentary elections the right-wing Swiss People's Party campaigned on the slogan "so that Switzerland stays Switzerland ...

and the dark wooden houses of the Swiss mountain village of Kippel become silhouettes against the still-sunlit peaks behind them, the silence is broken by the sallow chime of a cowbell.