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Children were evacuated from a London hospital’s paediatric ward after a fox fell through the ceiling.

The animal is believed to have climbed into the roof while building work was being carried out at the North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton.

The inpatient ward was closed for several days while the building was secured and repairs carried out.

A spokesman for the trust said the fox fell through a ceiling tile after managing to get into the building during a programme of major building works.

Staff evacuated eight children from the ward and alerted the RSCPA who removed the animal.

The trust said work was undertaken, following the incident in late June, to improve the security of the 1970s tower block on its North London site, so that animals could not gain access.

A spokesman said no-one was harmed during the incident, which occurred in a “non-patient” area of the inpatient paediatric ward.