Council boss hits out at bat threat to £274m road job

The leader of Norfolk County Council has fired a broadside at Natural England after a rule change over protected bats cast doubts over plans to build the £274m Norwich Western Link.
The government conservation advisory body has decided to confer “favourable conservation status” on Barbastelle bats in the region.
Council leader Kay Mason said the rule change will ” make it almost impossible for us to be granted a licence  and without that licence, we cannot build the