The iconic plant – whose cooling towers have long been symbolic to weary travellers on their way back to Nottingham – has been generating power for around two million homes since it came online in 1968, but has been the last of its kind in the UK for a year.

The UK's last coal-fired power station has closed. The plant in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, finished operations on Monday after running since 1967. The closure ends the country's 142-year reliance on coal.