ANTI-PYLON protesters have expressed hope that an international commission, which is to examine the controversial North-South electricity commentator, will recommend that power lines for the project be placed underground.

International consultants will report by next June on whether to bury high-voltage power lines underground, it was announced today.

ANTI-PYLON protesters have given a guarded welcome to government plans for an independent study on the health and other implications of high voltage power lines.