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Jonathan James has bought Fenton Fields
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A businessman has bought 127 acres of land for more than £1 million - to stop houses being built there.
Mechanical engineering magnate Jonathan James - who hails from Biddulph - has bought the land known as Fenton Fields in partnership with his daughter and business partner.