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Lydia Chantler-Hicks and John Dunne

‘God on his side with his lucky escape’: Firefighters rescue construction workers trapped in five metre-deep hole in Chelsea garden

Two construction workers have been rescued by firefighters from a 16ft-deep hole in a west London garden.

Around 40 firefighters in six fire engines were scrambled to the semi-detached house which is being renovated in leafy Gilston Road, Chelsea.

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