Plans for a waste transfer station handling 150,000 tonnes of rubbish a year have been thrown out.

County councillors overturned a recommendation to go ahead with the site – in Magna Road, South Wigston – at a meeting yesterday.

Councillor John Boyce, leader of Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, said: "I am delighted that the county council has listened to the well reasoned arguments of the borough."

On Tuesday residents protested against the plans, which would have seen 452 lorries going in and out of the site every weekday.

The Ellistown and Battleflat Action Group will meet at the Wesleyan Chapel, in Whitehill Road, Ellistown, at 7pm.

County Hall has released details of a potential giant incinerator site at the Interlink Business Park at Bardon.