Shaken but not stirred

I've had a mixed day today and fortunately I have Eden with me which helps a lot. It started at 5:15am this morning when I was woken by my neighbours yelling at each other again and I could not get back off to sleep.
The arguments carried on intermittently until 8:45am when she went out. I have to say that she is probably an alcoholic and I don't think he's much better but also seems to be sinisterly quiet and controlling and he's also much younger than her.
Anyway, we went out shopping after having breakfast and returned about 11:45am so I went into the kitchen to make some soda bread for lunch and also some minestrone soup. It took quite a while to chop all the vegetable and I was waiting for it to cook then at around 1pm I could hear this banging. He was really attacking my fence which is a six foot high larch lap panel fence which looked as though it was going to collapse so I yelled out and it stopped.
I was straight on the phone to the police and a bit later the local beat manager came round to see me. After I had told him what had happened he said that he would go round and speak to them. He was aware that I was very frightened and shaken especially after I had told him that I had experienced problems with excessive noise and other anti-social behaviour in the past which had become so unbearable that I had complained to the noise pollution and anti-social behaviour department at the council.
He wasn't sure whether this incident may have been directed at me because of that but I said I was not going to be harassed, intimidated or threatened in my own home and he agreed. He went next door but a few minutes later he said that they were either out or not answering so he came back later but still got no reply.
He is going to try to speak to them tomorrow but if I have any further problems I will certainly get in touch with the police immediately and from now on, every time I am disturbed by yelling, screaming or other noise, I have to get in touch with the emergency phone number at the council anti-social behaviour department.
This whole episode has been very upsetting particularly because I always try to be so quiet so as not to disturb anyone. It seems other people are not as considerate.