Belfast’s Harland and Wolff shipyard has started work on the assembling of 30 massive wind turbines that will operate off the English coast.

Each turbine will rise 160 metres above the Irish Sea and carry a rotor with a 126 metre diameter and a surface-area the size of a football pitch.

European energy company Vattenfall said it had delivered the first of nine consignments of turbines and towers for the wind farm to be based 10 kilometres off Barrow-in-Furness.

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