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Moving a church
In northern Sweden, they are moving a 672 tonne wooden church. It's because the expansion of a mine threatens to swallow a town, so bit by bit the town is moving. The church is being moved, extremely slowly and carefully, today and tomorrow.
 This is something you don't see every day.
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At a cost of around £39,000,000 this historic building, completed in 1912, is being shifted five kilometres. This cost includes the task of getting the church on and off the rolling platform, the movement, and all of the road works necessary to prepare for the moving of the church. It's an operation that has taken years to get to this stage.
Keep that in mind the next time the British government spaffs away obscene amounts of money with nothing to show for it - this is what can be achieved when people come together to make something happen.
Of course, it's not all mysig and lagom, for there is a discussion to be had about the state mining company encroaching onto Sami land and the act of displacing an entire town and all of its history a few kilometres down the road.
Now, Sweden, being the European oddball that it is (consider: Eurovision without Sweden would be unthinkable), they have devised something called "Slow TV" where you can get engrossed in watching an entire church trundle down the road at about the speed a pigeon can walk. What was that I was saying yesterday about distractions?
But not only that, it's a full television production with changing camera angles, drone footage, spectator interviews (!), live captioning (in Swedish) and all.
 Entertainment for those who like a slower pace.
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You can watch it yourself at https://www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9G/den-stora-kyrkflytten/forsta-dagen.
Spela plays the live stream (if available, or from the start if not), and Spela Från Början plays from the beginning.
If it is a bit iffy on your hardware due to the amount of data used, click on the cogwheel lower right and then select Begränsad bandbredd (limited bandwidth).
Have fun!
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