It can't be ignored here in the farm fields of Sangin district, where the Taliban have buried thousands of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

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Although planning officers recommended the wind farm should be approved, district councillors voted against the application in January 2012.

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Emergency care tsar Sir George Alberti likes telling a story about how he was once bitten by a farm dog while walking in the Lake District.

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He has bravely attacked farm subsidies, railing against the iniquity of a system that keeps food prices artificially high even though he grew up on a farm, and has farmers in his Texas district.

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Plans for the 44-acre farm in Willersey have already been submitted to Cotswold District Council by energy firm BELECTRIC.

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In the Peak District National Park, a caravan park was proposed on a farm clearly visible from several locations.

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West Oxfordshire District Council granted the Laisters planning permission to build on Southcombe Farm near Chipping Norton in October 2009.

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North of Nairobi, for example, the lush, farm-laced hills gradually give way to the semiarid landscape of the Laikipia District, 2 million acres framed to the east by Mount Kenya, to the south by the Aberdare Mountains, and to the west by the fossil-rich Great Rift Valley.

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East Lindsey District Council said it would not take a "predetermined view to object to all wind farm developments".

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