Solar panels turn Lincolnshire cheese green

Jessica Shankleman
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Tim and Simon Jones add solar panels to wind turbine at farm where Poacher cheese is made

Forget the smell of blue Stilton or the red rind of Edam. Now one British cheese maker has started selling "green" cheese from a farm powered by solar panels and a wind turbine. F.W Read & Sons yesterday...

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