Daily Mail: Farmers are being offered up to £50,000 a year to fill fields with solar panels under a Government-backed green initiative that threatens to change the face of the British countryside. More than 100 planning applications have been submitted and work on a large-scale installation in Wiltshire is due to begin later this month. But with a 30-acre farm able to accommodate up to 18,000 of the 2ft-high panels, campaigners fear some rural areas could be submerged by a sea of black silicon slabs….