Clock ticking for Ferrybridge power station cooling towers as demolition day draws near
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The towers will be reduced to a pile of rubble on Sunday during a series of explosions taking just 12 seconds. It will be an awesome spectacle for onlookers but so distracting that airline pilots flying into Leeds Bradford Airport are being warned.
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Hide AdLarge crowds are expected to witness it, while more than 140 people will be evacuated from their homes.
The exact time that veteran explosives engineer Dick Green will press the trigger – it is a handheld device these days – will not be disclosed.
However, those living in the 328 yard (300 metre) exclusion zone will be asked to leave their homes from around 9am.