In The English Countryside, A Pylon War Looms

The house and farm of John Stacey, which is the site of a proposed new National Grid electricity pylon route (Credit: AFP)

Standing by his winter wheat field on a plot of land where tall electricity pylons are set to be built, John Stacey feels far from bright about the future.

"They will cut our farm in half," he told AFP referring to the large metal structures due to be erected across Witham, northeast of London, by the start of the next decade.