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The electricity would be brought to shore at Dunbar in East Lothian and Blyth in Northumberland.

"It's a great victory for the region and the fact a local lad from Blyth played such a crucial part of the journey is wonderful," he added.

Meanwhile, Burn's former PE teacher Dan Kennerley, of The Blyth Academy, has recreated the player's goal.

When he passed his driving test, he would commute with three team-mates to County Durham from Blyth in a Peugeot 206, charging them petrol money because the journey cost him more than he earned from his Saturday job.

Aged 11, Burn was released from the Newcastle academy and by 16 he was pushing trollies at a supermarket in his hometown of Blyth once a week.