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Testing continues at Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium as the club try to get it open this season.

As football.london visited the new 62,062-seater ground on Monday the stadium evacuation system was being tested and can be heard in the video above.

A loud message was being played over the sound system, broadcasting that there had been a security alert and that the stadium needed to be evacuated.

The testing of the evacuation system is one phase of the crucial testing of elements of the safety systems that have been taking place in recent weeks to rectify problems with it.

While testing has been taking place inside the building, the finishing touches are being applied to the outside of the stadium with the veil around the ground now almost complete as workers on cherry pickers work to complete the final missing piece on the south east corner.

All the required panels are currently sitting below the unfinished area waiting to be installed by the workers in the coming days.

Here are 43 latest photos from inside and outside the new stadium today, including inside the media area and west stand entrance and plenty of the landscaping being finished around the site.

Tests were also taking place on the massive screens on the west and east side of the building as well as on the smaller screens on top of the navigation column and sign posts around the site, including those couple of posts with the now infamous 'Academy of Exellence' typo printed on them.

Work is also continuing on finishing the large ticket office, which sits alongside the club's Lilywhite House offices and the stadium.

There had been rumours this week of failed smoke tests in the basement of the stadium but they was dismissed as 'complete rubbish' by the club when contacted by football.london.

The fixture calendar and possible opening games for the new stadium has now opened up slightly due to Crystal Palace's FA Cup victory at Doncaster Rovers on Sunday.

The Eagles' 2-0 win in the fifth round means that Spurs' home game against Roy Hodgson's men on March 17 will now have to be rescheduled as that is the weekend when the FA Cup quarter-finals will be played.

With the Arsenal match earlier that month already confirmed as being at Wembley.

Tottenham's next home encounter does not arrive until the following weekend, on April 6 against Brighton. However, Chris Hughton's side are also in the quarter-finals and should they get through to the semi-finals, that would be the weekend those games would be played at Wembley.

If Brighton do not make the semi-finals then Spurs will be forced to either try to play the game at their new stadium or if that is not possible then as Wembley will not be available they will have to request a postponement. MK Dons' stadium, where they took on Watford in the Carabao Cup, is also unavailable as the Dons have a home fixture against Lincoln City that day.

After that the next scheduled home match is Huddersfield on April 13, followed by West Ham on April 27 and then the final match of the season against Everton on May 12.

There are also potential further Champions League home matches if Spurs can get past Borussia Dortmund in the last 16, following that 3-0 first leg win at Wembley on Wednesday.

A further update is expected from the club at the end of this month and the location of that Brighton game could now prove to be crucial.

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