Appeal: Javid allows wind turbine after six-year legal battle

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has approved plans for a wind turbine near Melton Mowbray first submitted in 2012, which was blocked by two of his predecessors and strongly opposed by local MP Alan Duncan.
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