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Energy giant scraps plan for windfarm

ONE of Scotland’s largest energy firms has bowed to local opposition and abandoned plans for an offshore windfarm near Kintyre.

Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) said yesterday it had decided to halt work on its proposed development just over a mile off Machrihanish on the peninsula’s west coast, citing a wide variety of factors including the impact on leisure and local residents.