Scrap Kings

In Preston, an old pub gets smashed to pieces as former regulars pop in to say goodbye. In Bournemouth, boat breakers take to the high seas to pull an abandoned yacht back to shore for crushing. In Sussex, a whole house is cleared and sold off at a car boot sale.

In West Yorkshire, an old fire station training tower tumbles to the ground in huge lumps. In Cheshire, a condemned river cruiser takes a ride on the world's first boat lift before it's ripped to pieces by a digger. And in Hampshire a scrap king is hands on as he knocks down his own scrap yard.

In Lancashire, a 1950s church must be stripped of its assets. A digger drops the piano from a great height before the building meets its maker and disappears into a hole in the ground. In Sussex, a banger racing team have just 24 hours to bring a scrap car back to life ready for race day.

A council housing estate in Oxfordshire is flattened but nesting birds and asbestos are holding up the team. Scrap cars are turned into a bait for a monster truck to crush and jump over. And in Sussex a scrap metal artists turns old motorbike parts into a giant alien squid.

In Suffolk, an old waterside animal feed factory produces a strange black liquid to hold up its demolition. In Hampshire, a Boeing 737 jet plane is stripped and cut to pieces before being made into furniture. And near Southampton, a new machine for chopping up old copper wire gives a Scrap King tonnes of granulated profits.

In Oxfordshire, a giant high reach digger is called in to take down an office block and shops but the high reach digger breaks down on site and causes problems. In Lancashire as an old brothel's knocked down the demo crew must get on their hands and knees to rescue a historic carved stone. And how to clean up by using old hot water tanks to make expensive bird baths.

In Jersey, the old cable car station must be cut up and dug out at the top of a hill fort but there's only one narrow pathway off site. In Dorset, a world renowned scrap metal artist honours a hero of World War I, with a life size sculpture from scrap. And imaginative inventors are called upon to make a brand new machine that can strip out a scrap car in a matter of minutes.

In Rutland, an old halfway house for ex-offenders must be demolished but it digs up secrets from the past and a valuable Mercedes stops the diggers in their tracks. In Dorset, a family say an emotional goodbye to yacht that's served their family well before it's broken apart.

In London, all work must stop after asbestos is found on the half demolished 6th floor of an office block. The team must fly in from above to pluck it from the rubble. In Lytham St Annes, roof tiles flying over the fence and a collapsed wall cause problems for the demo crew.

A concrete and steel walkway drops from above in one piece causing issues in Jersey. The demolition of an old garage leaves a Scrap King time to drive his Bentley to a wedding. And the Scottish blacksmiths mud larking in search of discarded metal chains to forge into a sculpture of an iconic national animal.

In Hampshire, a huge sports centre provides the entertainment for Dave, Ricky and Sam as they break up a swimming pool, gym and two squash courts. In Cambridgeshire over 3000 tonnes of scrap metal destined for Spain must be loaded on to a cargo ship in just a few days. And in Lincolnshire an artist converts the old wing of a plane into priceless piece of furniture.

In Bradford, a police station is broken apart with parts of the building salvaged for a museum and trendy London bar. In Somerset, military explosives are converted into the cutting tools to bring down an old power station in Australia. And in County Durham a maintenance man gathers up scrap yard cast offs to make metal monsters that attract tourists from all over the world.

In Surrey, an old house is stripped for its architectural salvage with chimney pots, radiators and floorboards converted for cash before the house is flat packed. In Cambridgeshire, a knobbly rolling machine that used to crush rubbish on a landfill site is broken up and buried. And robot wars... as an old lorry wheel from a scrap yard fights what used to be a domestic oven.

In Cambridgeshire over sixty metres of history disappears in five seconds as an iconic 1960s chimney is blown to pieces. In Gloucestershire a couple of road sweepers are broken and brushed aside into the scrap bin. And an old vet's table for operating on animals is converted into a chair for humans to get sick tattoos.

In Bristol the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge gets a demolition style makeover. In Northumberland a field of lost dreams for more than three hundred old combine harvesters reaps rich rewards. And a scrap between North and South on the banger racing track ends in civil war.

In Bradford one of Britain's ugliest buildings is blown to pieces as the centre of the city is shut down. In Cheshire a fire damaged potato harvester is cut into metal chips. And in Halifax, historic skills convert scrap brake discs into metal roof tiles for the Houses of Parliament in London.

A petrol station in Preston runs out of fuel as the crew get pumped up to munch down on the filling station. In Cambridgeshire an old skip lorry feels what it's like to be dumped and it's a race against time to get over seven million dollars' worth of scrap metal overseas.

In Grimsby, a thirty-year-old pile of pigeon muck presents a shovel load of problems for the crew. An iconic fire engine meets its maker at the hands of a five-tonne cleaver. And harvesting tools from the 1950's become part of brand-new sculpture made from metal parts with a history of hard work.

"In Yorkshire a titanic struggle with giant steel yacht which must be sliced up but it's too high to go under motorway bridges. In London, a tower block must be brought to the ground but the former residents have left the place in a mess. And how much money can you make from the spare parts on a burnt-out old tractor?"

A flour mill for bread with "nowt taken out" is ground to dust in Castleford. An old pub needs to be sent to the afterlife in Derbyshire but it's haunted by generations of dead drinkers. And a Porsche 924 is scrapped, but her engine delivers an object of desire for any petrolhead seeking the light.