A British forklift driver buried for eight hours under tonnes of cheese has emerged unscathed.

The man, named by the BBC as Tomasz Wiszniewski, was trapped after shelves at a food distribution warehouse collapsed on Friday morning.

Search and rescue teams from the West Midlands, Merseyside and Leicestershire, including sniffer dogs, were involved in trying to pull the Polish worker from the wreckage inside the 60m building at the depot of haulage firm Edwards Transport in Hinstock, Shropshire.

While an onlooker had to be treated for shock, rescuers were gobsmacked as Mr Wiszniewski emerged unharmed.