Neighbours are celebrating after a country and western fan described as the "oldest raver in town" was jailed for repeatedly breaching the ASBO banning him from blasting out his Dolly Parton tunes.

Michael O'Rourke has had an order against him since 2014 which was supposed to deter him from blaring country songs long into the night.

Residents on his normally quiet street, Gadle Braes in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, had repeatedly complained about the high volume of the music which included tracks by Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash.

But the nuisance 57-year-old continued to blast out country anthems like Dolly Parton's Jolene and Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire as late as 4am - when his long-suffering neighbours were trying to sleep.

He was sentenced to six months in jail at Peterhead Sheriff Court on Monday.

The court heard he had breached the anti-social behaviour order at least six times since April 2015.

O'Rourke had previously been spared prison - but Sheriff Andrew Miller said there was no alternative to custody.

He said: "I'm told about the various steps you feel you have taken to address this issue, but the one that you have failed to do is to simply stop playing your music.

"Every other possible sentence and disposal has been tried. You have been given the opportunity to pay fines and carry out work in the community, but none of that has appeared to have had any effect on your behaviour.

"Imprisonment is very much a last resort. That, unfortunately, is the case today. I can't let this situation continue."

Henrietta Thain, 78, who lives up the street from O'Rourke said she hopes jail will "knock some sense" into the man dubbed the Rhinestone Cowboy by locals.

She said: ""He's an awful boy when he's drinking. He gets really sentimental and blasts the music as loud as he can.

"I don't know what's in his head. You'd think he'd have given up by now.

"I like country and western music but I can't understand why he keeps blaring it. Maybe some jail time will knock some sense into him.

"It's normally quite a quiet area usually - apart from when he's playing his tunes."

And Mrs Thain added: "To tell you the truth I don't get the worst of it because I go to bed very early but my neighbours get it much worse.

"I'd hate to live next door to him.

"When you see him in the street, he seems quite quiet and unassuming but he's a party animal at heart.

"A lot of people in the town call him 'Rhinestone Cowboy' when they ask us when he's moving out."

O'Rourke's home has been on the market since June, when he told the court that he wanted to leave the area after admitting to becoming a "nuisance" to neighbours.

But the ground-floor flat, which has been soundproofed, has failed to attract a buyer.

Defence lawyer Stewart Flowerdew had previously told the court that O'Rourke's issues stemmed from problems with alcohol.

He said: "The house is for sale, and while there has been interest nothing has developed.

"There does seem to be a condition of depression and a feeling that he is not being listened to."

O'Rourke, who is partially deaf, has a history of spats with neighbours over his music and was handed a three-year Asbo in 2009.

He was once thrown out of a bingo hall for calling "house" too loudly and he was described previously by a sheriff as the "oldest raver in town".

Two years ago his stereo was seized by court officers in an effort to stop him playing his vast collection of vinyl.

But neighbours said that he simply switched to a CD player and kept blasting out the country classics at deafening volume.

A previous next-door neighbour said he had been "glad to see the back of him" after O'Rourke moved.

The 55-year-old, who asked not be named, said: "I used to hear him quite a lot.

"Most weekends you would hear the stereo going. Always Country and Western music. I wasn't sorry to see him go."