MP JANET Anderson is demanding a meeting with ministers in her latest bid to stop the Scout Moor wind farm going ahead.

She and fellow Labour MP Jim Dobbin, whose Heywood and Middleton constituency also involves the land needed for the "green" generation plant, believe the project must be blocked.

They are writing to Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks and Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett demanding a face-to-face confrontation.

Rossendale and Darwen MP Mrs Anderson has already expressed her anger that Mrs Beckett's Junior Minister Jim Knight mistakenly told her and Mr Dobbin that the farm was to be blocked earlier this month but he had confused it with a similar wind farm at Whinash in Cumbria.

She now wants the Scout Moor scheme ruled out by preventing the exchange of common land needed for it to go ahead.

Mrs Anderson, Mr Dobbin and opponents of the scheme claim the proposed transfer is inadequate and will leave small areas of public land between the giant wind turbines, thus ruining the whole point of public access to the moors above Rossendale.

Mrs Anderson, who has been bombarding ministers with Parliamentary questions on the issue, said: "Jim and I are demanding a meeting with Mr Wicks and Mrs Beckett, the two ministers responsible, to sort out this confusion and block the scheme.

"We do not think the exchange of common land should go ahead or that this wind farm should be allowed to destroy a beautiful area of East Lancashire countryside.

"The whole thing goes against government policy and the bill which will come back before Parliament after Easter aimed at protecting common land, which this scheme certainly does not."