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  Ossie and father in law ......all in it together...............
  
  Courtesy Independent......
  
  I meant to say frack North-west, says Tory peer Lord Howell
  
  George Osborne's father-in-law continues to court controversy with new remarks
  
  Lord Howell, the Tory Peer, has admitted that he had made a mistake in his controversial
  
  remarks about fracking - only to clarify that when he said drilling should be carried out in the
  
  North-east he in fact meant the North-west of England.
  
  Instead of rowing back on his comments made in the House of Lords earlier in the week,
  
  which he admitted had caused a "huge furore", the peer, George Osborne's father-in-law, is
  
  quoted as saying in The Daily Telegraph that fracking should "be far away from residences in
  
  unloved places that are not environmentally sensitive".
  
  He goes on to lament the construction of wind farms "in sensitive places down in Sussex,"
  
  according to the newspaper.
  
  His comments are likely to be deemed insulting to people living in the north of England.
  
  On Tuesday he described north-east England as "desolate and uninhabited" landscapes
  
  that were suitable for fracking.

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