ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Three large cooling towers at a disused power station in southern England were demolished in the early hours of Sunday morning (July 27) to cheers from local residents.<br/> <br />One-hundred-and-eighty kilograms (approximately 397 pounds) of explosives flattened the cooling towers at Didcot, Oxfordshire at 0501 local time (0401gmt) in less than a minute.<br/> <br />The demolition firm chose to carry out the operation at dawn on a Sunday morning due to health and safety concerns, urging people to stay away from the site and to watch the action via a live online stream instead.<br/> <br />But many ignored the advice, getting up early to watch the towers come down, after failing to convince the authorities to change the demolition time.<br/> <br />The 2,000-megawatt Didcot A coal-fired power station was closed in 2013 after more than 40 years of operation.<br/> <br />Under a European Union law limiting pollution from power plants, Didcot in 2008 was permitted a further 20,
