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As well as Energy Security or whether its a danger to Public Health as well as to the environment. Energy companies had hoped to extract shale gas by hydraulically fracturing underground rock across large parts of central scotland, a heavily populated area where residents strongly resisted. Campaigners now hope westminster will take similar action. Now england is the last place where the government is advocating the technology. It is being met with enormous resistance, wherever it is proposed in...

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Stoke are eyeing a move for highly-rated Fleetwood Town midfielder Brendan Sarpong-Wiredu in this summer's transfer window, TEAMtalk can exclusively reveal.

Town will again be without skipper Gareth McAuley for Sundays final game of the season at home to Coventry, Roy Keanes first home match in charge of the Blues (KO 1.15pm). The Northern Irishman is over his hamstring problem but picked up a knee injury in training.

Town boss Roy Keane could be without loan striker Daryl Murphy when Sheffield United come to Portman Road for the final game of the season on Sunday (KO 1pm). Murphy, whose spell comes to an end after Sundays game, has a thigh strain with Keane unlikely to take a chance on the Sunderland man if he is in any doubt regarding his fitness.

Town go into Saturdays game at Leeds United looking for a victory which could see the Whites relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time. A win for the Blues at Elland Road and a victory for Hull at Cardiff would confirm Leeds drop into League One.

Running a bar can be a thankless task, but a lot of people in Whitehorse say they are grateful for what Darla Hansen has done with The Local Bar. The news Hansen has decided not to renew her lease and step away from The Local has been greeted with a mixture of sadness and dismay.

Former Blues defender Christophe Berra has been named the interim-head coach of MLS Next Pro side Huntsville City following the exit of one-time Town teammate, Jack Collison.

Towns woeful home form continued as Doncaster Rovers left Portman Road with a 3-1 win. Gareth Robertss fluke put the visitors in front, before Owen Garvan hit back, but goals from Paul Heffernan and James Hayter won the game, while Connor Wickham became Towns youngest ever player.

Town made a loss of £15.96 million in the year to June 2012, the club’s annual report and accounts have revealed, with the Blues’ overall debt rising to £79.62 million.