Parish councillor Martin Usherwood, from the Ford Action Group Against Wind Turbines, said it would have been a "major mistake" to allow the application to go through.

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Although the five local authorities on Tyneside and Wearside deny it, Paul Usherwood of Northumbria University reckons that rivalries between local councils have played a big part in causing public artworks to sprout across the region.

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