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Council rejects plan for coal-fired power station at Hunterston

CONTROVERSIAL proposals to build a coal-fired power station at the Hunterston complex in North Ayrshire will now have to be decided by a public inquiry.

Councillors today turned down an application which had drawn over 20,000 objections, making it the most opposed planning application in Scottish history.