An 89ft tall wind turbine could be installed at the foot of the picturesque Sweeney Mountain in Shropshire.

An 82ft high wind turbine which was controversially given planning permission near Shrewsbury last year came crashing to the ground in high winds.

It will be deeply ironic if the damage to a wind turbine which has temporarily closed a windfarm in Mid Wales was caused by high winds.

A windfarm in Mid Wales has been temporarily closed while engineers investigate damage to one of its wind turbines.

A major debate about plans to build hundreds of wind turbines and a massive substation in Mid Wales is to be broadcast live on the internet, it was revealed today.

Roads across Shropshire and Mid Wales could be inundated with lorries carrying huge loads, if proposals to build hundreds of wind turbines go ahead, a document by campaigners against the plans has claimed.

Civic leaders in Welshpool have vowed to continue objecting to all windfarm applications which pass through the chamber because of issues over transporting turbine sections.

Huge swathes of countryside across Shropshire and Mid Wales could be ruined by wind turbines and pylons, the head of the National Trust warned today.

A giant 150ft wind turbine could be built near Market Drayton to power a farm, it emerged today.

Letter: We must be soft in the head in Wales. While North Powys had 103 wind turbines about 150 feet in height at Llandinam in the mid-90s, Shropshire, just across Offa’s Dyke did not have a single wind turbine.

Developers have won their battle to install a 230ft wind mast at the site of a controversial windfarm on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border.

It is not surprising that the three issues which most concern people about wind turbines have surfaced in your letter column. I would like to respond to each in turn.

Nearly 100 people turned out at a meeting last night to protest against plans to put up towering wind turbines near Bridgnorth.

Plans which could see hundreds of pylons built across miles of Shropshire and Mid Wales countryside could invade the landscape and devastate communities, an MP has warned.

Hundreds of campaigners fighting multi-million pound plans which may see hundreds of pylons and a substation built in Mid Wales will march on the Welsh Assembly on May 24.

Campaigners fear more than 1,000 wind turbines could be built across Powys as more planning applications are set to flood in.

Civic leaders in Welshpool have hit out at county councillors over their lack of response on windfarm transportation issues.

Letter: Ever since cinema was invented there have been science fiction “catastrophe” movies of varying quality and credibility. Imagine climate change as a sci-fi scenario.

People living close to windfarms in Powys could face a health risk as campaigners claim turbines are being built too close to people’s homes.

Six sheep with small wind turbines attached to them may travel to London in a bid to prevent thousands of wind turbine lorries travelling through a Mid Wales town.

MP Lembit Opik has presented a petition to Parliament demanding a public inquiry into plans for a large number of windfarms in Powys.

Pupils will be escaping leaking roofs and “intolerable” conditions when they move into their new multi-million pound Shropshire school.

Civic leaders were travelling to Cardiff today to take their fight to prevent thousands of lorries from “destroying” a Mid Wales town to the Welsh Assembly.

An energy company bidding to build seven wind turbines the height of St Paul’s Cathedral in north Shropshire has made its final case on the last day of a month-long public inquiry.

A month-long public inquiry on plans to build seven giant wind turbines near Market Drayton was due to end today.

Welshpool Town Council fears thousands of lorries used to carry wind turbines to a proposed site in Powys will end up destroying the town.

Up to 550 wind turbines are set to be built across Powys in the coming years, council bosses admitted today – taking the total in the county to more than 700.

A proposed windfarm near Market Drayton would not spoil “magnificent” views from a historic hunting lodge on the north Shropshire border, a public inquiry has heard.

A controversial new windfarm should be allowed in north Shropshire to help the “underperforming” West Midlands region meet its renewable energy target.

A fighting fund has been set up to help defeat a wind turbine “threat” in a village near Whitchurch. More than £80,000 has been pledged to the campaign.