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The company, which started exploratory oil drilling near Balcombe, West Sussex, now says there are likely to be other more suitable sites instead. David Cameron has insisted that every part of the ...

The village of Balcombe in West Sussex has, until now, been best known as a pretty spot of about 2,000 residents but now finds itself at the centre of a national environmental row about the future ...

Smells of the previous night's extinguished fires mingled with fresh coffee and, despite a heavy police presence, Balcombe ... have set up protest camps in West Sussex in opposition to the ...

which is carrying out test oil drilling in West Sussex. Protesters at the Reclaim the Power camp at Balcombe have been learning how to use metal tripods to scale heights in readiness for action on ...

Energy company Cuadrilla is scaling back its exploratory oil drilling operation near Balcombe in West Sussex on police advice. Up to 1,000 extra anti-fracking activists are expected to join ...

Protesters engaged in two days of direct action at the Cuadrilla site near Balcombe, West Sussex. Credit: PA Wire Anti-fracking protesters will maintain a presence outside an exploratory drilling ...

The arrests came as anti-fracking campaigners gathered for a second day in the village of Balcombe, West Sussex, where Cuadrilla is poised to start test drilling. The village has become a focal ...

The publicly funded northern section of the bypass has been delivered by West Sussex County Council and ... a 225-metre viaduct was constructed to cross Black Ditch, an ancient waterway, instead ...