Decision expected on how power lines linking Hinkley Point and Avonmouth will be built

Campaigners fighting plans for new power lines across the Somerset countryside should find out later this morning how they will be built.

An announcement is expected from the government deciding whether cables connecting the new Hinkley Point power station to Avonmouth will run overhead or underground.

Last week one Tory MP said above-ground pylons would ruin the view and described it as "unforgivable to despoil Somerset in that way".

The Member of Parliament for Wells James Heappey called for the lines to be buried underground, saying the proposed 40-mile chain of pylons from Hinkley Point would spoil the approach to Somerset from the M5.