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A grandmother who wore a bikini in her own garden was given a new-style 'ASBO' called a 'nuisance notice'.

Kay Crane was given the notice by a town hall in order to prevent her from wearing the two-piece on her property and was even threatened with legal action.

The 81-year-old former model was told not to wear her bikini in view of a neighbouring nursery.

Ms Crane from Manchester said: "I felt bullied, intimidated and steamrollered."

According to MirrorOnline, a Freedom of Information request revealed Ms Crane's order, that was subsequently withdrawn on a technicality, was one of more than 20,000 new-style 'ASBOs'.

Other "nuisance notices" were handed out by councils to homeowners accused of minor 'anti-social' behaviour such as keeping chickens, feeding birds or failing to trim overgrown gardens.

Three families were told to stop keeping chickens and ten councils issues notices against people feeding birds, as critics argued many of the 'ASBO's were handed out for "trivial" behaviour.

In another case, a householder was ordered to improve a dilapidated shed.

The number of notices has increased by 58 per cent from 3,943 in 2014-15 to 6,243 in 2017-18.

Campaign group the Manifesto Club, which submitted the information requests, said many of the notices appeared to restrict people's freedom to live as they pleased in their own homes.