A builder was injured after he fell through several floors while working in an Oxford city centre building this morning.
The 53-year-old man, who has not been named, suffered leg injuries after falling through a ceiling and landing in the basement of the building, in High Street, which is being refurbished, at about 9.20am.
Two fire crews and an ambulance were called to the site next door to Starbucks coffee shop, which is being refitted for the Northern Rock bank.
It took firefighters about half an hour to rescue the builder, who was taken from the basement in a stretcher.
An ambulance service spokesman said the man was in a stable condition at the John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford.
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