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Gladiator Jet joins David and Goliath battle to save Redcar s blast furnace
Diane Youdale visited the iconic structure at the former steelworks in Redcar and asked What would be wrong with keeping it?
19:36, 12 FEB 2021
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Taskforce recommends that Redcar s iconic blast furnace site should be dismantled
The independent group say the structure should be pulled down to make way for regeneration, but campaigners say they ll continue to oppose
18:53, 15 JAN 2021
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An independent taskforce has recommended that Redcar s iconic blast furnace should be dismantled.
The heritage taskforce, set up by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, has concluded that the structure - which has overlooked Redcar since the late 1970s - should be pulled apart with any “materials and artefacts of industrial architecture being salvaged for memorials or displays .