A TITANIC battle has broken out between neighbouring families over noisy late night renditions of a classic hit by singer Celine Dion.

Joe and Elaine Wright said they had to endure sleepless nights listening to the theme music from the blockbuster film - Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On - on next door's piano.

The Wright family, of Peasholm Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, claimed the noise from their neighbours, Clive and Annie Haviland, had got so bad that they put their house up for sale.

"Music would play very late in the night and keep us awake - all we want is a quiet life," said Mr Wright.

After months of "musical torture", he took the matter to Scarborough Borough Council earlier this summer.

The Havilands were issued with a noise abatement notice, forcing them to stop the music.

A council spokesman said: "We made our own investigations into the complaint, using video recordings and making visits to the property, to make up our own minds as to whether the music was causing an intrusion."

But Mr and Mrs Haviland said the matter had been blown out of proportion.

They have applied to the courts for the notice to be overturned and claimed the Wrights had a personal vendetta against them.

Mrs Haviland said they were a musical family and her daughter was learning the Celine Dion music on the piano.

"We can't believe this has happened, we simply were playing our instruments at reasonable hours in the day," she said.

"We are most angry that the council gave no prior warning before hitting us with the order."

She said they now felt they could not play their music in case they found themselves accused of breaching the notice which could leave them facing criminal proceedings and a court fine of up to £20,000.

The appeal is expected to be heard at court in the next few weeks.