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.

Leading naturalist David Bellamy OBE has spoken out against plans to build seven wind turbines on the north Shropshire border.