内容摘要：About 150 jobs could be created as part of a planned retail and leisure development on vacant land in Staffordshire.

About 150 jobs could be created as part of a planned retail and leisure development on vacant land in Staffordshire.

"The embedded safeguards within the design of the wellsite, and the rigorous technical assessments that accompanied the planning application, demonstrate that the risks to environmental sensitive receptors are very low and can be properly managed."The company said minerals could only be extracted where they are found, adding "there will continue to be a need for indigenous oil and gas as the UK transitions to a low carbon economy”.

Lawyers are expected to argue whether it was in the public interest to grant planning permission in an AONB.The hearing will also examine the potential environmental impact of the project and whether this can be justified.Should the judge rule that the decision by the government to allows drilling was taken unlawfully, it may then be quashed.

The case will be heard over two days at the Royal Courts of Justice.A hiss and puff of compressed air shapes the smooth leather, bringing to life an all-American cowboy boot in a factory on China's eastern coast.

Then comes another one as the assembly line continues, the sounds of sewing, stitching, cutting and soldering echoing off the high ceilings.

"We used to sell around a million pairs of boots a year," says the 45-year-old sales manager, Mr Peng, who did not wish to reveal his first name.The president also said he planned to impose tariffs on the European Union in the future, saying the bloc had not treated the US well.

Campaigners from villages near to a proposed oil drilling site in the Lincolnshire Wolds will be at the High Court in London later to try to stop it going ahead.The legal action by SOS Biscathorpe is attempting to overturn a government decision made last year to allow work to begin.

The site is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and campaigners are concerned that a nearby chalk stream could be contaminated.The drilling company Egdon Resources said its operation would be done safely, adding there was a need for "indigenous oil and gas as the UK transitions to a low carbon economy”.