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Anti-frackers ‘horrified’ as drilling begins at former bomb test site
Former Green Party leader Natalie Bennet joins protesters near the fracking site in Nottinghamshire

ANTI-FRACKING activists were “horrified” yesterday when a “monster convoy” of trucks arrived under the cover of darkness to start drilling for shale gas at a former bomb test site.

In the latest sign that the dash for shale gas in England is plumbing new depths, fracking firm IGas is now poised to drill an exploratory well in the village of Misson in Nottinghamshire.

The controversial location, officially known as “The Rocket Site,” was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a surface-to-air missile pad in the cold war. Prior to that, it served as a bombing range.

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