DOZENS of people watched as an old steel plant was demolished on Teesside. The plant at Lackenby, near the Trunk Road, Redcar, was originally opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.

Gerard Smith, team leader at the Corus Steel BOS Plant at Lackenby, said: "There were lots of employees and their families who had come to watch. There was a massive bang. People said the explosion was heard as far away as Saltburn."