A judge has granted residents of Balcombe in West Sussex the right to challenge a High Court decision to allow oil exploration in their village.

Oil fields run by Star Energy, in or near the South Downs National Park, have been recorded emitting climate-changing gases for the third time. Cold venting at Larkwhistle oil site, Stockbridge. Photo ...

Oil fields run by Star Energy, in or near the South Downs National Park, have been recorded emitting climate-changing gases for the third time.

Oil fields run by Star Energy, in or near the South Downs National Park, have been recorded emitting climate-changing gases for the third time.

The arguments at the centre of a landmark legal challenge to UK onshore oil production have secured a separate historic court win against the Norwegian government.

Two directors of an oil firm have retired after “consultation with shareholders” and the entire board of a second company faces a call for its replacement.

The UK’s second largest onshore oil production site has published proposals to increase its footprint by about a third and drill two new wells.

A suspended oil site in West Sussex, where no work has been carried out for nearly six years, could supply geothermal heat for farming, including tea production, according to new plans.

Anti fracking campaigners gathered in a North Yorkshire village today to remember their battle against plans to extract shale gas.

Cuadrilla should be given an extra two years to return its controversial fracking site near Blackpool to farmland, council planners have said.