Youre questions answered. Thats with plaid cymrus liz Saville Roberts. Taking you straight to Ironbridge Gorge in shropshire for the pictures of the demolition of four cooling towers the. We just got to that a couple of moments later after the charges were set. 120 metres high and they cost of £10 million. Crowds gathered to see that historic moment as the towers at the coal fired power station in Ironbridge Gorge in shropshire came down. The work of so long comes down in a matter of seconds and as you can see, a cloud of dust is all that is left. 0ur correspondent phil mackie is watching the demolition. That was quite an amazing sight. It has gone completely to plan. There was concern that some would fall into the river severn. Essentially where that dust cloud is at the moment, but everything seemed to happen quite perfectly on time. You really have to be 60 years old or older than that to remember what it was like before that. 55, 60 years ago when they started building these power
studio: the french prime minister gabriel attal giving his reaction to what has been quite a historic parliamentary election in france, if those exit polls are correct because at the moment they suggest marine lieutenant s hard right national rally party has taken the biggest share of the vote in the first round of france s parliamentary elections. these are the exit polls thus far, but if they do indicate that this is indeed marine le pen s hard right national rally party taking the biggest share of the vote in the first round, it is indeed a historic result. let s cross live to paris were my colleague is monitoring this. we havejust monitoring this. we have just heard gabriel attal give his first reaction to those exit polls. indeed and let me reaction to those exit polls. indeed and let me give reaction to those exit polls. indeed and let me give you reaction to those exit polls. indeed and let me give you a reaction to those exit polls. indeed and let me give you
it s six in the morning in singapore. we are on the wrong running order, apologies. i m going to bring you some details about france. it is the first round of france s parliamentary elections, and they suggest that the far right have made historic gains in this election. turnout was the highest, for a0 years. marine le pen s hard right national party came top, with more than a third of the vote, followed by a surge in support for the left wing coalition, with around 28% of the vote. president macron s gamble to hold the snap election saw his centre right alliance of parties relegated to third place. a final result won t be known for another week, with a second round of voting for the national assembly s 577 seats, next sunday. andrew harding has the latest from paris. a kiss for marine le pen this morning. a politician once considered too extreme for most french voters, today her national rally is on a roll. and with le pen, her 28 year old protegejordan bardella, who s hopin
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