[FONT=Verdana]A 212ft chimney which was built to provide heat and hot water for hundreds of Rolls-Royce workers was being dismantled today.[/B][/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]The giant steel structure was built in 1973 at the only aero-engine manufacturing plant in Scotland.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]It had replaced an older chimney which was taken down at the end of the Second World War.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]A 75-metre exclusion zone was set up as workmen used burning equipment to dismantle the Hillington landmark.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]The Rolls-Royce production hub closed when a new custom-built