On 27 April 1989, ITN's cameras captured a bizarre event staged to celebrate a milestone in the digging of the channel tunnel, when French construction workers made record-breaking progress on their side of the tunnel by breaking through from the under-sea service tunnel to the site of the French rail-link in Sangatte. Giant cut outs of historical figures loomed over the construction site as people gathered, many in fancy dress, to watch an enormous, Mitsubishi-designed drill break through the rock wall.

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