A construction worker who became trapped in a building project that he was working on has been freed after falling from scaffolding - thanks to a 'loophole'.

The builder had to be rescued through a small hole as the premises he was working in had no doors fitted.

He was badly injured after he fell from some scaffolding and was rescued after emergency crews were called to the extension which was being built on to a house in Denmore Gardens, in Wolverhampton on Tuesday morning.

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The property had no outside door and a doorway into the existing house had not yet been knocked through.

The man had therefore to be passed through the space for the window on a stretcher.

The man, aged 63, was taken to Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital with a badly broken leg and has since undergone surgery.

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