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Former Green Party leader Natalie Bennet joins protesters near the fracking site in Nottinghamshire
ANTI-FRACKING activists were “horrified” yesterday when a “monster convoy” of trucks arrived under the cover of darkness to start drilling for shale gas at a former bomb test site.
In the latest sign that the dash for shale gas in England is plumbing new depths, fracking firm IGas is now poised to drill an exploratory well in the village of Misson in Nottinghamshire.
The controversial location, officially known as “The Rocket Site,” was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a surface-to-air missile pad in the cold war. Prior to that, it served as a bombing range.
From Vietnam to Iran, US leaders repeat a failed strategy of terror bombing – one that history shows cannot break a determined, resilient society, says DYLAN MURPHY
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA
