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SaturdayΜύ29 December
Helen Mark visits Kielder in Northumberland, 25 years after the vast reservoir was built.
is Europe's largest man-made lake, and its creation was controversial.Μύ It was constructed to service the industry in Teesside, but just as the dam was being built, that industry was in decline. A valley was flooded and people lost their homes to a project which was derided as a white elephant. Twenty five years on, Helen Mark finds out whether the scars in the landscape have healed, and whether the new man-made landscape has been a success for local people and the environment.
Jonty Hall from recalls a big moment in his childhood - pressing the button to open the sluice gates for the first time; Yvonne Riley recalls life before the lake, when she lived in the valley; Helen is taken deep into by naturalist Gordon Simpson, and Peter Sharpe and Gary Fildes introduce the buried deep in the forest, and the latest building at Kielder - the .
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