"Five years ago I stood here and said we had made history here in Brighton," Lucas said to loud cheers inside the Brighton Centre conference venue.
Contributing to the problem is a fierce appetite for loud music, without an understanding of what this means for hearing in later life.
Despite loud prompts from his son and Peter Robinson, the new-fangled, insulting replacement for the RUC eventually came out "ESPI" instead of PSNI.
It's the first time I have been (intentionally) made to laugh out loud at a style piece.
For the subsection most likely to be found lolling in the festival's green fields to the sound of a cycle-powered electric banjo, the Pyramid stage – where U2 play – is like going into town on a Saturday night: big, loud and lairy, with Radio 1 favourites blaring on a loop.
Particularly frequent or prolonged exposure to very loud sound can permanently damage the ear's sensory cells, causing irreversible hearing loss, and even deafness.
Related: Office employees should be on feet for four hours of working day, study says If you are reading this at your desk at work – perhaps on the sly while your boss has a loud conversation, or on the downlow while you avoid making an important phone call because for whatever reason you have to psych yourself up to make a phone call – stand up.
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes (Granta), is a sharply observant, if slightly fantastical, satire on modern family life that made me laugh out loud.
Appearance: Slightly too bright, slightly too loud, a little frayed around the edges.
Even the government has made loud noises about curbing tax avoidance, giving £900m to Revenue & Customs to fight it.
This is the point at which Labour councils should be saying no, in a loud and clear voice, with support from their national leadership.
