London building collapse

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Working just a goal-kick away from the scene of the building collapse in Westminster at 16:04 today, Stephen McCartney, 30, said: “I work on the third flood of an office in Tothill Street - just a goal-kick away from the incident on Dean Farrar Street.

“Whilst working on the computer in front of me, I noticed that a few colleagues further down our floor had rushed over to the window - there was no hint of a bang.

“Turning to my left and looking out of the window, all I could see was a trail of smoke float across us in front of the building.

“I walked over to the window but at the time, didn’t notice anything unusual.

It was over an hour when Stephen, an office administrator, and editor of the Kentish Football website, noticed what had happened - due to the work that he had to get done by home-time.

He said: “Before I left the office at 5:30pm, I visited the BBC website to find out what had happened, and printed off the article and passed it to one of my colleagues.

“On my way out of the building, two men from the Fire Brigade had passed me and asked our man on reception if they could use the bathroom.

“I came out of our building and noticed that our building had been cordoned off, so I walked underneath the ribbon and noticed the television crews, Police, Fire Brigade and on-lookers.

ENDS