A couple who claimed "shattering" helicopter noise ended hopes of selling their £4m mansion to celebrity couple Tess Daly and Vernon Kay have scored a landmark High Court victory.

Buckinghamshire's Bickerton's Aerodrome has now been told to cut the racket or pay almost £600,000 in damages by a judge after he visited the Denham property and listened to the “excruciating” noise.

Norman Peires and his wife Lorna claimed the nightmare din of chopper blades coming from the nearby aerodrome blighted their happiness and slashed the value of their luxury home.

The couple attempted to sell the mansion to Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess, but the move fell through when they stepped out into the garden, the court heard.

Mr Justice Peter Smith was also told that another potential buyer, Gabby Logan, did not even make it past the front gate because of the noise.

Having recently visited the property, the judge said: “I found the noise excruciating in the garden and clearly noticeable to a significant degree within the rooms.

"It was simply impossible to have any kind of conversation or do any kind of activity in the gardens when the helicopters were there".

He added that there was "compelling" evidence that the helicopter noise amounted to a legal "nuisance" that had to be stopped.

He issued an injunction against Bickerton's Aerodromes Limited, restricting it to only two 15-minute weekly training sessions close to the boundary.

The racket was so dreadful that the judge said he would have awarded Mrs Peires, who brought the case, £583,000 in compensation.

But the return of peace and quiet to the family home - Shepherd's Holt, a six-bedroom Bucks mansion - was more important to her than the money, the court heard.

Mrs Peires, 69, earlier told the judge: "We made that house exactly the way we wanted it. We wanted to live there for ever".