"We kept closed windows all winter and we did not say anything, but this has passed all normal behaviour,” commented Frano Gverović on the clouds of dust and noise coming from his new neighbour Slavica Ecclestone.

The construction works on the former wife of the Formula 1 guru, Bernie Ecclestone, have been going on for months as she builds an exclusive villa on the seafront in the tranquil bay of Zaton.

And it seems that neighbourly co-operation is not high on the list of Slavica’s priorities. Frano Gverović rents out apartments and because of the stone dust and deafening noise many of his guests have already cancelled or left early. He had presumed, wrongly, that when the summer months arrived the building work would stop as is the law in Croatia. "Five buildings stopped work on the construction site, but nothing here," he added. The building work is still continuing and the clouds of stone dust still rising every day, it would appear that Slavica has friends in high places.

Frano Gverović has problems with his famous first neighbour