Redcar steelworks demolished in massive controlled explosion

Basic Oxygen Steelmaking, which shut seven years ago, blown up using 1.6 tonnes of explosives

A former steelworks in Redcar has been pulled down in what is believed to be one of the biggest explosive demolitions in the UK.

In dramatic scenes - in which the structure disappeared in a cloud of dust and smoke with a blast that could reportedly be heard eight miles away - the 65-metre-high Basic Oxygen Steelmaking plant was blown up on Saturday morning.