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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ben Turner

Man sick of paying for electricity moves into windmill and says he won't pay bill again

A villager is grinding out the energy bill crisis and generating his own electricity by restoring an 1830s windmill - and he'll even sell excess power back to the grid.

James Forsyth, 66, lives at a corn mill site in Cambridgeshire that has been defunct since 1925.

The retired boat builder is undertaking an ambitious project to restore a defunct windmill that he says will cut out his £200-a-month electricity bill.

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