Amorous sharks bite into plans for windfarm

Plans for a massive offshore windfarm have been blown off course – by amorous basking sharks.

Campaigners were celebrating last night after it emerged that developers were looking again at the £7billion scheme because part of it would cut across a key mating ground for the huge fish.

Scottish Power Renewables (SPR) could reduce the scale of the 300-turbine project by a third to protect the important breeding area off the west coast.

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