Didcot Power Station's chimney to be demolished in February

The final remains of the disused power station will be blown down on Sunday, February 9.

The demolition of the 655ft chimney follows the final three cooling towers, which were brought down in August last year.

An iconic part of the Oxfordshire landscape, the chimney is as tall as the HSBC Tower in London.

A section of the A4130 and Milton Road alongside the power station will be temporarily closed during the morning of the demolition.

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The coal-fired Didcot A Power Station closed in March 2013, and since then the station has been demolished section at a time.

The first part of the demolition process took part in 2014, with the three southern cooling towers brought down in July of that year.

Disaster struck in February 2016 as the collapse of the 10-storey boiler house resulted in the deaths of four workers.

John Shaw, 61, Ken Cresswell, 57, Michael Collings, 53, and Christopher Huxtable, 34 were killed in the disaster and it took more than six months for their bodies to be recovered from the site.

The boiler house was being prepared for demolition.

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The second three cooling towers were not demolished until August of last year, when thousands gathered to see their fall.

Didcot and Abingdon suffered power cuts after a large section of debris from the explosion struck an electricity line.

40,000 homes lost power seconds after the demolition.

The substation which serves Didcot and Abingdon, as well as Wantage, Wallingford and even parts of the Chilterns blew.

The iconic chimney was built after Didcot A was commissioned in 1964.