Clock ticking for Ferrybridge power station cooling towers as demolition day draws near

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The clock is ticking for four cooling towers at the redundant Ferrybridge power station, which has dominated the landscape for decades.

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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