WHO ROCKER’S BATTY PROBLEM

In hIs days as frontman of The Who, Roger Daltrey ‘ran things the way he wanted’, according to guitarist Pete Townshend.

But Daltrey, 74, is struggling to have things all his own way out in the country, where his plans to demolish a bungalow on his East sussex trout farm and replace it with a three-bedroom house have encountered a snag. A survey has disclosed ‘evidence of a bat roost’ in the roof, meaning Daltrey may be obliged to install ‘bat access points’ in the new building, since bats are a protected species.

Certainly more protected than Townshend and other members of The Who once were: anyone who argued with Daltrey, Townshend has said, ‘usually got a bunch of fives’.