Workmen discover incomplete tunnel under Farrowfield site; impressed by workmanship

Builders in Manchester have stumbled across an underground tunnel built by would-be burglars.

The workmen were laying ducting for electrical cables at Birchfields Road retail park in Fallowfield, Manchester when they uncovered the 12m tunnel stretching from a railway embankment to beneath a video shop.

The end of the passage was just 5m away from the video shop鈥檚 cashpoint when the builders came across it.

The professionally-built tunnel was 1.5m high with scaffolding supports, electric lights and even a rudimentary ventilation system.

An employee for the unnamed company said: 鈥淭hey had made a really good job of the supports. Even the police were impressed with the workmanship.鈥�

Police now think the burglars must have been working on the tunnel for weeks, but there is no sign of the displaced soil.