Disappointment as campaigners lose battle to stop opencast mine in north west Leicestershire Friday, June 24, 2011

Campaigners have lost their battle to prevent an opencast mine from going ahead in north west Leicestershire.

UK Coal's planning application to extract 1.5 million tonnes of coal and fireclay from its Minorca site, in Measham, over three years, was approved at County Hall ye…

This contains news that John Craven and a Counrtyfile team visited the Measham area on 3/8/10 to investigate issues around opencast mining after choosing the Minorca application as a case example to show on the Countryfile Programme