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They've stood for 42 years as landmarks towering over | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
the Oxfordshire landscape, but it took just seconds to demolish | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
three cooling towers on the site of the now`closed Didcot coal`fired | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
The towers were brought down by 400 lbs of explosives | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Hundreds of people spent the night on hills around the site watching. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
They had been a prominent part of the South Oxfordshire landscape | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
And with a thundering blast, three giant towers came crashing | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
More than 1000 spectators gathered before dawn here at Wittenham Clumps | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
Many had stayed up all night for their chance to capture this | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
I remember that site before they built the station, my first job | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
was on that power station so I had to be here to see it come down. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
It was worth waiting for, it just happened so quickly. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
I have been up here since midnight, really good atmosphere with | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
everybody, I am quite sad to see it go. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
More than 3000 people signed a petition calling for | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
Npower which owns the site insisted for safety reasons | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
I think it went very well, no safety incidents, we have had | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
feedback from the demolition contractor to say it went fine. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
There does not seem to be too much dust on the railway line, | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
that was one of the concerns that we had, so yes, very pleased. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
It is the end of an era, the final three cooling towers are | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
Npower says the whole site will be cleared | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
by 2016, making way for developers to build new homes and businesses. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
And if you want to see those pictures again, you can find them | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
A motorcyclist and a pedestrian have been killed in an accident | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
The police say the motorcyclist, a 23`year`old man, collided with | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
the pedestrian, a woman aged 63, near Chafey's roundabout at around | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
The woman's dog also died in the accident. | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
An air`sea rescue operation was launched last night | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
after a woman was swept out to sea, having apparently gone | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
for a late`night swim off the West Sussex coast near Rustington. | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
The Solent Coastguard helicopter used its searchlight to locate | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
She was brought ashore just before two o'clock this morning | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
by one of the two Littlehampton inshore lifeboats deployed | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
After being given first aid, the exhausted woman was taken to | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Hundreds of passengers had to wait hours for their luggage following | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
Many travellers were told to leave without their luggage | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Gatwick Airport said the delays were caused | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
by "resourcing issues" involving baggage handlers at Swissport. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Onto sport, and the Oxford`born clay pigeon | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
shooter Matt French has won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
French was desperately unlucky in the final round at Carnoustie ` he | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
missed just one of his 30 targets, but his England rival, Steve Scott, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
didn't miss any, recording a perfect 30 out of 30 to take the gold medal. | :03:36. | :03:47. | |
99 Thames out a hundred Mathew Shuter 29 win but you cannot beat a | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
man who does not mess and he was amazing and that final. I am pleased | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
with that. When you trying to think and hoping that he would miss one? | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
The strange being in this situation. We have been and the situation | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
countless times. To do it on the big stage, it is nice that we could both | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
put on a good show. If anyone makes to come. The showers | :04:17. | :04:33. | |
will clear away and be well see dire conditions coming into play. | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
Tomorrow, you will notice the change. We have the winds from the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
North West, it should be a dry day with spells of sunshine. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Temperatures will get down to four or five Celsius. What we would | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
expect for this time of year. Highs of 23 or 24 degrees. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
I will be back at 10:25pm. Have a good evening. | :04:58. | :05:11. | |
Topped temperatures down 5 degrees on yesterday and much lower humidity | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
so the second part of the weekend has been much more comfortable. The | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
coming few days, if we get sunshine it will be pleasantly warm. It's not | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
a completely | :05:22. | :05:23. |