Defra delivers fresh blow to solar industry through farmer subsidy crackdown

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Environment Secretary Liz Truss brands solar farms as 'ugly' and warns they are undermining UK's ability to grow crops

The government has delivered a fresh blow to the UK's burgeoning solar farm industry, announcing plans to end farming subsidies to landowners who install photovoltaic arrays from the start of next year....

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