The ones that didn't get away

Christiani/O'Rourke has had an œ8.5 million advanced work contract interrupted, while representatives of the National Rivers Authority moved 650 lbs of marine and freshwater fish.

The fish, which even included a Dover sole, were left stranded when a cofferdam was drained in preparation for the construction of the Canary Wharf Jubilee line station. In an operation named 'hook, line and sinker', the fish were caught in huge nets and transferred to the nearby River Thames.

It is not known if the workmen brought their rods in the hope of overtime work catching the ones that got away.