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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20051206
Author:Jane Bradley

SIR Walter Scott has been drawn into a fight to stop a wind farm being built at a Lothians beauty spot he admired as one of the most striking scenes he had ever seen.

The great novelist wrote "I think I never saw anything so beautiful" about the view of the Pentland Hills from Leadburn in Midlothian.

Now protesters fighting plans to build 330ft-high wind turbines at the site are claiming the author as one of their own.

They say the views could be lost forever if plans for a wind farm at Auchencorth Moss are given the go-ahead by Midlothian Council.

The development, planned by German energy ...

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