Tower blocks branded eyesores by locals are finally being demolished.
Work began yesterday to pull down Bayley and Stoneycroft Towers, in Bromford, after a five-year delay.
Attempts by Birmingham City Council to demolish the 20-storey blocks have been frustrated by first, the recession, and then a family of peregrine falcons.
The council had finally secured the funds to demolish the blocks last year when they found two falcons had made a nest at the top of Bayley Tower and hatched four chicks. Demolition could not start until the birds flew off, which they did at the end of last year.
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