Power station in Oxfordshire demolished three years after worker deaths
Cooling towers at the disused Didcot plant in Oxfordshire, owned by German group RWE, were taken down early on Sunday morning.
Kenneth Cresswell, aged 57, and John Shaw, 61, both from Rotherham; Michael Collings, 53, from Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Teesside, and Christopher Huxtable, 33, from Swansea, South Wales, died after the partial collapse of the boiler house at the Didcot A plant in February 2016.
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Hide AdThames Valley Police and the Health and Safety Executive had launched a joint investigation to consider corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter and health and safety offences.
Contracting firm Brown and Mason carried out Sunday's demolition.
Didcot A ceased operation in 2013 after running for 43 years.
Three of its towers were demolished in 2014.