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It may be about to get warmer in the coming months, but Surrey Police have asked people to refrain from sunbathing nude in their gardens.

The force has issued advice to people wanting to take the more care-free sunbathing option after officers were called out to a "neighbour's dispute" over the issue.

Police in Reigate and Banstead posted a warning on their Facebook page, adding that they "are getting calls to deal with such incidents in the borough".

The social media post read: "If you want to wander around your garden naked and you are overlooked neighbours then you have to be careful - an Englishman's home is not quite his castle and your garden is not exempt from the law.

"In an ideal world, your relationship with your neighbours would be such that they would not object to you gardening in the buff and they would never dream of calling the police.

"In the real world, however, you would be well advised to take some simple precautions."

The force advises explaining to your neighbours that you want to sunbathe without clothes and to be discreet.

They have suggested confining naturism to a part of the garden which can be screened from the view.

The post continued: "You will have to decide whether your desire to be naked in your garden is more important to you than being on friendly terms with those around you.

"While the police may well be reluctant to become involved in a dispute between neighbours they are bound to investigate an allegation of 'indecent exposure' or 'outraging public decency'."

It added: "No-one has the right to spy on you and if you find that your neighbour is leaning out of an upstairs window or standing on the top of a step ladder in order to see you then he or she may well be committing an offence."

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