A huge sculpture taller than the Angel of the North is under construction close to the M62 near Warrington.

The Bolt of Lightning structure is being built as the centre point of the Mountpark roundabout at the Omega South business park on Skyline Drive in Burtonwood, beside junction eight of the M62.

The memorial will be 22.5m high, making it taller than the 20m Angel of the North, which is found next to the A1 in Gateshead, the ECHO reports.

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Honouring the former RAF Burtonwood airbase, which was used by the United States in WWII, the sculpture will depict a US Lockheed P-38F Lightning fighter aircraft on top of two curved beams. The structure will be illuminated with searchlights

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