Workers rescued from well shaft

One of the trapped men is carried to the ambulance on a stretcher

Two builders have been rescued after falling 40ft (12m) down a well shaft at a derelict school in Sheffield.

The pair were trapped at the former Daniel Hill School on Daniel Hill Street, Upperthorpe, Sheffield, on Thursday morning for two hours.

The men, aged 44 and 39, are conscious in hospital with facial wounds.

Twenty fire fighters and two ambulances attended the scene, where the men had been working for developers Pullan Homes to convert the site into flats.

A spokesman for Pullan Homes said it was "very concerned" for the men who have worked for the company for a number of years.

One of the injured men is from Goole, East Yorkshire, and the other is from Sheffield. Both are married.

Sheffield City Council which sold the building to Pullan Homes said it had been a primary school until 1999.