Telegraph: Britain's efforts to get fracking for shale gas have suffered a fresh delay after it emerged a legal challenge against the only approved project will not be heard until the end of November.
Shale explorer Third Energy had hoped it might start work at its Kirby Misperton site in North Yorkshire as soon as the end of this year, after getting planning consent in May.
But green groups Friends of the Earth and Frack Free Ryedale sought a judicial review of North Yorkshire County Council's decision,...