World’s longest ‘interconnector’ to supply green electricity to 1.4 million UK homes

Across southern Europe the heatwave continues with the mercury predicted to hit 45 degrees celsius in Greece this weekend. So stopping the burning of fossil fuels which are overheating the planet is ever more urgent.

Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from Lincolnshire, where engineers have installed the world’s longest “interconnector”. It runs between the UK and Denmark and will eventually supply green electricity to 1.4 million British homes.