Four cooling towers at Rugeley Power station in Staffordshire demolished

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Four cooling towers at Rugeley Power Station in Staffordshire were demolished on Sunday (June 6).

Going...

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Going...

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Gone!

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Each of the towers stood at 117m tall and could cool six million gallons of water in an hour.

After generating electricity for over 50 years, Rugeley coal station closed in 2016.

The site is due to be redeveloped into several thousand homes.

People were asked to watch it online on the feed above to avoid crowds gathering at the scene, and there is a large exclusion zone around the site.

Callum Watkinson reports.


It's the ninth demolition to take place at the site: