SUSTAINABILITY guru and Green leader Professor John Whitelegg will visit Rossendale in order to publicly debate hill-top windfarms in Rossendale.

Prof Whitelegg, who is widely tipped to become the region's first ever Green Euro MP, is currently a Professor of Sustainable Transport at Liverpool John Moores University and also Professor of Sustainable Development at York University's Stockholm Institute of the Environment.

He will lead a debate on the issue at a public meeting tonight.

He will be arguing in favour of offshore wind and wave power rather than inland wind farms.

Prof Whitelegg will be chairing the debate "Does Rossendale need windfarms?" at Longholme Methodist Hall, Bacup Road, at 7.30pm.