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Greenpeace campaigners erect mock drill rigs outside of George Osborne's Tatton office in porotest of fracking. Tatton has been market for potential drilling. Greenepeace says new poll finds majority of constituents opposed to shale gas extraction.

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BBC: George Osborne's office in Greenpeace fracking protest

Greenpeace campaigners erected mock drilling rigs on a village green outside George Osborne's constituency office in protest at fracking.

The group climbed on to the first-floor balcony of the Conservative MPs Tatton office in Cheshire, and renamed it the headquarters of "Frack & Go".

They said a new poll found the majority of the chancellor's constituents oppose shale gas extraction.

Tatton has been earmarked as a potential area for drilling.  MORE