Singer Susan Boyle has received an honorary doctorate for her contribution to the creative industries. She was honoured by Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University, where she studied for a certificate in caring.

The degree is for work in society at large, which the university said reflected its commitment to the communities it serves. It was presented to the West Lothian star by founding chancellor Sir Tom Farmer.

Brought up in Blackburn, Boyle made her name on ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2009. One YouTube clip of the performance where she sang I Dreamed A Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, has had 21.5 million hits. Her first album in 2009, I Dreamed A Dream, was at the time the fastest-selling debut album ever.

With the release of two further albums, Boyle has since sold about 18 million albums worldwide and has 120 platinum and gold albums across 38 countries. She has sung on TV in the UK, the US, Australia, Ireland and Japan, and performed for Pope Benedict XVI and the Queen. The singer also performed live to half a billion people on the TV show China's Got Talent.

Many of us would be happy to pay for the privilege of hearing Susan Boyle sing. So you would think her neighbours might be pleased to enjoy her musical talents for free. They, however, seem less than delighted, claiming her early morning arias are ‘unbearable’.

Now Teresa Miller, 39, and her friend Paul Keaveney, 44, have submitted an official complaint to the council saying the noise prevents them from hearing their own TV. Mother-of-two Miss Miller, who lives next to Miss Boyle in Blackburn, West Lothian, claimed the star regularly belted out covers of Wild Horses and Unchained Melody as well as I Dreamed a Dream – the song that propelled her to fame. She said: ‘We used to hear the odd bit of shouting and sometimes singing before she was famous but since she became successful she’s got worse. It is so loud you can’t hear the telly. It’s unbearable sometimes.

Susan Boyle still lives in her old house, left, next door to Teresa Miller who says the millionaire singer keeps singing along to her own tunes so loudly she cannot hear her own television.

滬江娛樂(lè)快訊：英國(guó)廣播公司報(bào)道，在草根選秀節(jié)目中高歌一曲而聞名全球的蘇格蘭歌手蘇珊大媽接受了英國(guó)愛丁堡瑪格麗特皇后大學(xué)(Queen Margaret University)頒發(fā)的榮譽(yù)博士學(xué)位，獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)她對(duì)社會(huì)及文藝界所做的貢獻(xiàn)。

許多人都覺得聽她唱歌是種享受，但她的鄰居卻不這么想。鄰居米勒受不了蘇珊大媽從早到晚都在家中播自己的唱片，還大聲跟著一起唱，憤而向警方投訴，還說(shuō)她最常唱《Unchained Melody》和《I Dreamed a Dream 》。

蘇珊·波伊爾因在2009年的英國(guó)達(dá)人秀中演唱歌劇《悲慘世界》中的名曲《我曾有夢(mèng)》而紅遍全球。有關(guān)她演唱的一個(gè)視頻曾在YouTube上被點(diǎn)擊2150萬(wàn)次，她演唱的《我曾有夢(mèng)》單曲也成為歷史上最暢銷個(gè)人首張專輯，《我曾有夢(mèng)》和隨后發(fā)行的另兩張專輯曾在全球38個(gè)國(guó)家達(dá)到1800多萬(wàn)張的銷量。