Oswestry & Border Chronicle, January 1, 2015

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Windfarm Protest
Corrie actor launches hospice art sculpture
project is call over
CORONATION Street star Ian Puleston-Davies
ditched hascuttheribbononanewsculptureatHope traffic
HouseChildren’sHospice.
Theactor,whoplaysOwenArmstrong,officially
by firm revealedtheMagicTreessculptureattheentrance system
tothehospiceinMorda,nearOswestry.
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recentlyrenamedDesignsinMind,andthesiblings ACOUNCILLORhascalled
AWINDFARMwillnotbe ofchildrenatthehospice. for a mass protest against
built in the countryside Hugecolourfultreebrancheshavebeendeco- Welshpool’s controversial
near Lake Vyrnwy as offi- ratedwithwiresculpturesofbirds,animals,pixies one-waysystem.
cials behind the proposals andsprites. Powys County Council
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