The structures at the Richborough Power Station, near Sandwich, Kent, were brought crashing to the ground in just 21 seconds.

Its 318ft (97m) cooling towers where reduced to rubble before the single 416ft (127m) chimney stack crumbled to the floor at 9am yesterday morning.
It was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board and started in the late 1950s.

Gary Lever, development director for BFL Management Ltd who now own the site said: 'The demolition of the cooling towers and chimney represents an important landmark in this project which will allow the site to be brought back into productive use for the first time in nearly 15 years.'