Irish Times: Exploration company's arrival divides English village

ON A DARK wet November night, Singleton is a quiet village with just a few cars parked at the Miller’s Arms, but beneath the surface divisions have been exposed between people who have lived alongside each other for decades.

Last January exploration company Cuadrilla Resources began to erect a drilling rig half a mile from the village, much of which is owned by the Singleton Trust set up in 2004 after a bequest from a local estate owner Richard Dumbreck, who dreamed of a self-sustaining, thriving community.   HERE