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TOP GEAR - ITALIAN JOB.....

The Top Gear team have never been averse to a challenge, but their latest may be the hardest yet.

Presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are set to race Mini Cooper cars through Belfast's new six-mile sewer network, in scenes reminiscent of The Italian Job.

In past shows, the three have raced to the North Pole, driven across the African continent and sailed cars across the English Channel.

The Italian Job saw a gang led by Charlie Croker, played by Michael Caine, hatch a plan to steal $4m in gold destined for banks in Turin, before making their getaway in three Mini Coopers.

The sewerage system proved the ideal escape route for the little cars, which were chased through the tunnels by the Carabinieri.

Although the entrance and exits in the film's sewer sequence were shot in Turin, the 'in tunnel' footage was shot in a sewer in Coventry, which was under construction at the time.

Now the Top Gear team will recreate the scenes in the new Belfast system.

A spokeswoman for NI Water said: 'NI Water enters into negotiations with many organisations and specialist journals and magazines in order to promote the £100m Belfast Sewers Project, one of the biggest civil engineering projects in the UK.'

Tunnelling work on the project to replace Belfast's Victorian-era sewerage system began in 2005.

The scheme is scheduled for completion early next year.

 

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