When journalists were first invited to visit the site of the proposed Britishvolt factory in Northumberland, the only thing to see was a deer gambolling in the middle-distance.
The plot - not quite the former Blyth Power Station site, as was first reported, but the site of its former coal yards - stretches as far as the eye can see but currently contains a whole lot of nothing other than the odd shrub and the occasional bit of wandering wildlife.
Within the next few weeks, however, the site will become one of the largest construction sites the region has seen in recent years after multimillion-pound Government funding helped the electric battery firm secure private investment of £1.7bn to build a 3,000-job gigafactory there.
