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He added that the team had decided to move on to the "next phase" of operations - using heavy equipment to move slabs of concrete.

A piece of electrical equipment found in hundreds of thousands of homes across the UK could pose a safety issue, according to industry documents seen by BBC Scotland News.

Heavy and jagged portions of the floors and walls sat in piles where tree roots and vines had pushed through and wound around the remains of scavenged equipment, a kind of mechanical carnage.

Unknown to his colleagues at Charing Cross, Rory came into work for almost every shift wearing specially constructed hidden cameras and recording equipment.

Higher tariffs have sparked rising prices in construction materials and equipment, while the crackdown on undocumented workers has thinned and spooked much of the international workforce the industry depends on.