Slinging mud: inside (and outside) the UK's biggest fracking site

As horizontal drilling starts in Lancashire this month, the Guardian talks to protesters and staff at the Cuadrilla wellMike Hill, sitting in his living room a few miles from a fracking site outside Blackpool, is brandishing a government letter brushing aside his concerns about the industry. “You, Theresa May, overruled democracy to force fracking on the residents of Fylde,” he says, referring to his own letter to the prime minister, in which he urges her to heed experts’ calls