Update on our earlier update on the failed Kirby Muxloe implosions.
Earlier today, we incorrectly reported that the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond had overseen the failed implosions at Kirby Muxloe in Leicestershire.
Well, it turns out that it wasn’t the only fail of the day. For while BBC cameras were in attendance, “The Hamster” failed to show as expected. We then compounded matters by reporting (wrongly) that he had been there.
However, on this occasion, things may have turned out for the best. The Sun, Britain’s most widely-read newspaper and an almost permanent fixture in the back pocket of demolition workers up and down the country, picked up on the story and is currently planning to give Demolition News a mention in tomorrow’s edition.
According to C&D Consultancy’s John Woodward, the failed implosions were caused by a faulty batch of detonators; and the pair of chimneys were felled instead by AR Demolition’s high reach Volvo excavator that had been on standby for just such an eventuality.
