Developers Coriolis and Falck Renewables said the farm would not impact on protected areas.

BBC: Ben Wyvis

Mr Buckles was instrumental in creating the current G4S business through the merger of Securicor and the security businesses of Group 4 Falck in 2004.

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Here the most interesting example is Denmark, where a private company, Falck, provides two-thirds of the country's fire service, under a law dating from 1926.

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Coriolis and Falck said the project avoided protected areas and the site was close to other "significant development", including industrial estates at Evanton and a line of electricity towers.

BBC: Ben Wyvis

In Belgium, the security firm Group 4 Falck has boosted both its cash-in-transit (CIT) workforce and its secure vehicle fleet by about 20% in the last few weeks to make sure it can cope, marketing manager Stephane Bocque told BBC News Online.

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