Margaret Thatcher's Car Crash Visit to Torness Power Station (1989)

On 13 May 1989, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher travelled to Torness Point in Scotland for the opening of Torness Nuclear Power Station. As soon as she was in sight of the plant's cooling towers, however, things started to go wrong...

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