Country diary: A new chapter for these old hills | Tom Allan

Wolfelee Hill, Scottish Borders: They've been used for upland sheep and sitka spruce plantations - now the wind turbines are arriving, as the locals know all too wellFrom the low outcrop of grey sandstone, I get my first glimpse of the new turbines. Five kilometres from the hill I'm climbing, construction is under way on 11 turbines at Pines Burn, not far from the town of Hawick.The structures rise above the sparsely populated Borders landscape like white pillars from the space age. The tallest is 149 metres high. They dwarf everything around them: the rough-grazed hill, the ranks of sitka spruce plantation. Continue reading...