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Fracking in Lancashire

Fracking at the Cuadrilla site in Lancashire is due to start today

Fracking at the Cuadrilla site at Preston New Road in Lancashire is due to start today, and protestors will be demonstrating against it. This will be the first time that horizontal shale fracking has taken place in the UK. We hear from Francis Egan, chief executive of Cuadrilla.

(Preston New Road shale gas exploration site, credit: PA)

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