Furious Lynne is helping lead Docking's objections to a 260-foot wind-testing tower which could lead to the establishment of a wind farm of up to seven turbines within two years.

And she is incensed at the thought that the village will have the tower imposed upon it in the same way that, without consideration of local views, mobile phone masts have been added to Docking water tower.

Mum-of two Lynne (44), of 2 The Mount, Docking, said she and two other residents of the five homes where she lives have had cancer. And a fourth resident living near the water tower with its many masts and dishes has also had cancer.

She said: "I know you can't say the mobile phone masts have caused our cancers, but there have been suspicions about these types of masts and it leaves you with doubts.

"I've got enough on my plate without the added worry of this wind mast, which will be just a few hundred yards from my home."

She said she only found out about plans to plant the giant wind-testing tower on the day of the deadline for comment.

Now she's angry that she missed her chance to officially object, and is even angrier that her parish council, which she claims knew about the plan ten days before her, had not informed residents.

"They should have called a public meeting," she fumed. "I didn't find out about this until 9pm on the day by which comments had to be in. We emailed a response, but the parish council could have told us about this ten days earlier. It has failed to inform nearby residents."

She is also worried that the value of the home she has lived in for the past 21 years will be devalued with just four years left to pay on her mortgage. Mrs Springford's home is on a rise, the second highest in Norfolk, and she will look down into a valley where the tower will be sited.

She said Britain's Got Talent judge, actress Amanda Holden, who has a holiday home in the area, may also be affected by the "blot on the landscape".