Too loud?! How can we give our ears a break?

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The One Show's resident GP Dr Sarah Jarvis has been out on the streets of London.

She was out with the Royal National Institute for Deaf People to test how loud Londoner's personal steros are. The people they checked seemed suprised at how easy it was to damage their hearing.

Click this link for more information about the RNID's phone-line hearing test.

Nearly nine million people in Britain are deaf or hard of hearing. Only a third of people who could benefit from wearing a hearing-aid actually wear one.

So, in an ever-louder world, how can we give our ears a break? For example, should the playing of music on public transport be banned? No more hissy-loud personal stereos on buses?

What do you think?