Seeing Daylight In Roof

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Hi guys,
hoping for a bit advice/reassurance please. seems to be the months for all sorts of issues with my house... :(
anyway, during windy days i've been hearing a tapping/knocking that sounded like something lifting/dropping or such, pretty irregular. got a guy out and he looked the roof over, said all was good, might be wind getting in under the bottom bit of the overhang (sorry, can't recall the term he used), or might even be one of the facing tiles on the front of the house; a couple do look out of place slightly.
Anyway, today was more noise, so i went up into the attic, had a torch and the light off, and i see a bright patch rover one of the bedrooms, right down where the eaves are. sorry for the crap picture
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some threads seem to suggest this isn't something to be greatly worried about? got the guy coming back next week, but i'm fretting :D

there's some light visible at the gable too, beyond these breezeblocks;
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you can see they're a bit manky and plugged with insulation :-/

no signs of water leakage etc.


TIA
 
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Roof spaces need to breath, there's a gap between the top of fascia board and tile.

Any knocking in the wind tends to be tile chatter. Every 3rd course of tile tends to be nailed down, the others tend to chatter in the wind. When I tiled roofs, I used to pop a nail in each tile to help reduce this.
 
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hi guys, thanks for the replies. had a roofer out, there's a couple holes in the felt so i'm getting that replaced.

is the light beyond the breezeblocks anything to worry about? can have the guys look at the roof when they're doing the other stuff [i'm getting end caps put on the ridges instead of the cement, when they start messing about]. will blocking those godawful gaps be enough to sort me out? if so, what's the best solution? i'm not too clever at mixing cement - aside from not having a spare breezeblock in the house, lol - would some expanding foam or similar be ok?

TIA
 

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