Brown and Mason gets Didcot nod…

Work to resume at Didcot A power station.

Breaking NewsDidcot Power Station owners RWE have announced it has hired a contractor to resume the task of clearing the wreckage next month after work stopped following the death of four men in the collapse.

Power station demolition specialist Brown and Mason will take on the contract, six months after firm Coleman and Company had its terminated.

Coleman and Company had been preparing the boiler house in February 2016 when it collapsed, killing Michael Collings, 53, Chris Huxtable, 34, Ken Cresswell, 57 and John Shaw 61.

Brown and Mason will now conclude the removal of the wreckage, the company has previously worked on site during the recovery operation last year and have over 50 years of industrial demolition experience.

The team will begin work on site mid-May, the initial focus will be on clearing the remaining debris pile in addition to other demolition works at site.

The demolition of chimney and north cooling towers will be part of a separate contract and is not planned until summer next year.