Fracking application rejected by Lancashire county council

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Anti-fracking campaigners visibly delighted as councillors reject Cuadrilla's application to drill for shale gas at Preston New Road

Lancashire county council has rejected a planning application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla to frack in the county, in a major blow to what would have been the UK's biggest round of fracking so far....

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