Campaigners have expressed their delight at a decision to reject an appeal over a controversial wind farm development in the heart of the Borders countryside. Windjen Power wanted to construct eight turbines at a site south-west of Dunion Hill near Jedburgh, Roxburghshire.

The most controversial wind farm project in Scotland is set to get the green light from ministers, sparking a massive clash between environmentalists and the government. In what has been dubbed a rerun of the Trump golf course row, plans for 53 wind turbines on Lewis - within sight of 'Scotland's Stonehenge', the Callanish Stones - seems certain to be approved.

Astronomical costs have meant the Lincs wind farm planned to go off the coast of Skegness has been postponed by Centrica. Permission was granted for the 250MW wind farm In November but even since then the company has been looking at ways to get the costs of building it down.

This is the latest setback for the Government, which is relying on wind power over the next decade to help the UK achieve tough green energy targets. Last week, Spain's Iberdrola, the world's biggest investor in wind power, admitted that investment in the UK would fall by 40 per cent this year. Centrica is still keen for the 250 megawatt wind farm near Skegness, Lincolnshire, to be developed, but the board will not sanction the move because of rising costs.

Opposing wind farms is as 'socially unacceptable' as not wearing a seatbelt or failing to stop at a zebra crossing, says the climate change minister. In a speech that infuriated rural campaigners, Ed Miliband said the Government should be tougher in pushing through controversial wind turbine schemes.

Wind Prospect estimates there would be 679 lorry journeys on the road while the turbines are built - but admits it originally told Wychavon District Council there would be 302. Mr Wood said the lorries would come along the A38 and then go into the village of Ryall via a very narrow road. That route, he said, was used by lots of horses and so the lorries could put the safety of them and their riders at risk.

Concerned residents turned out in force to a public exhibition detailing plans for a wind farm on land near Langford and Biggleswade. Representatives from the Co-operative Group, which has put forward the plans, were on hand to answer questions. But Tony Spencer, chairman of Langford Parish Council, said he was surprised by the amount of people who turned out.

The number of wind turbines being planned for the city has been drastically cut because it is not windy enough. Because Leicester sits in a natural bowl, experts said few areas would be suitable for generating green energy. Leicester City Council has tested wind speeds and soil at six sites to see whether they could support turbines up to 450ft tall.

Residents have expressed outrage after it was revealed the edge of a forest could become the home of up to 13 wind turbines. Two developers are drawing up plans for a stretch of farmland near Hamsterley Forest, in County Durham, where research has shown strong wind levels. Bolsterstone Innovative Energy and Banks Developments are looking at land between Woodland village and the forest's southern edge.

There was a "slightly disappointing" turnout at a public consultation into a controversial wind farm project. The claim was made by Nuon Renewables, which staged events around Neath Port Talbot and, in June, will submit plans to build 100 475ft turbines stretching hundreds of miles from Tonmawr to Maerdy.

The applications were turned down by the city council's planning committee last October, who cited the harmful impact on the landscape as one of the grounds for refusal. An appeal is now pending. But at a town hall meeting yesterday, a letter from an expert advised committee members that defending their case on landscape grounds was "extremely weak" and it would not be successful at the forthcoming planning inquiry.

A range of turbines have been withdrawn from sale after a recent study revealed they do not work as effectively as first thought. The £1,900 micro-turbines, which went on sale across the DIY chain B&Q's 320 stores in October 2006, claimed to generate 1kw of electricity, when wired directly into a main ring, reducing the amount of power a household would need to buy. ...B&Q is reported to have sold hundreds of the wind turbines since their launch last year.

A major windfarm project off north Norfolk is seeking to pack scores more turbines into its planned site. The Dudgeon scheme 18 miles off Cromer could now have up to 168 towers instead of the 60 to 100 originally earmarked for the area. ...The project, due to start operating into life in 2013, has previously drawn concerns from fishermen, who say it is an important spot for crab migration. Other offshore windfarms have sparked worries about the danger of birds being hit by the spinning blades.

Wild weather across southern Europe this week is expected to produce a record amount of renewable electricity. As Spaniards were today warned to batten down windows in order to fend off fierce Atlantic gales, the country's electricity distributors were anticipating a windfall - a huge boost in power generation from the country's wind farms.

Protesters say new plans to build a giant wind farm even closer to Harrold than was originally proposed will "destroy people's lives". Energy company RWE npower originally unveiled plans to build 16 wind turbines, each 410 feet tall, between the villages of Harrold, Lavendon and Bozeat, in August 2006.

The search for new planets in star systems light years away from Earth is coming into conflict with the need to find cleaner sources of energy closer to home. A small wind farm proposal on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border looks set to be rejected by council planners next week, as one of the first projects where astronomy has been held as a key reason for refusing the project.

One of the world's leading turbine manufacturers is to make 11% of its workforce redundant as windfarm developers put on the brakes in the face of a global economic slowdown. Clipper Windpower said in a trading update that 90 staff would be laid off and production levels cut by up to a fifth but insisted that work on a giant turbine for the North Sea, which is supported by the Crown Estate, would be unaffected.

A campaign to prevent a wind farm being built near Brixworth has stepped up a gear with campaigners now appealing to the public for support. The Stop The Brixworth Wind Farm campaign seized the opportunity to persuade householders to object to the plans at a parish council meeting.

A plan to build a wind turbine twice the height of Nelson's Column in Cornwall has been put on hold. There had been fierce local opposition to proposals to erect the 127m (420ft) high turbine at the Eden Project. Instead the ecological tourist attraction and a community group will join forces to develop a sustainable energy strategy for the whole area.

Police have launched an investigation after vandals destroyed a £20,000 wind monitoring mast in southern Scotland. The incident occurred near Lockerbie at the proposed site of Wind Energy's Newfield wind farm. Guy wires holding the 60m (196ft) high meteorological mast were unbolted, causing it to fall with the destruction of expensive monitoring equipment.