Notre Dame rebuilding can finally begin

PARIS’S Notre Dame Cathedral is stable enough for work to rebuild it to begin – more than two years after a fire tore through it, destroying its roof.

Efforts to secure the structure, which began the day after the inferno on April 15, 2019, are complete, the agency overseeing its reconstruction said yesterday. Specialist carpenters and scaffolders plus a host of other skilled artisans took part in the project, which used temporary structures to secure the cathedral’s iconic towers.

The agency insists French President Macron’s target of allowing visitors back inside by the summer of 2024, when Paris hosts the Olympics, will be met.