No-one will be prosecuted after a 30 foot scaffolding tower came crashing down in a busy Hampshire high street.

Last October the tower which was situated on Winchester High Street dramatically collapsed.

The footage of the incident was caught on camera.

As previously reported by the Chronicle, raders scrambled to move their cars as the metal structure collapsed yards from where they were setting up their stalls on Sunday morning.

Witnesses say three contractors, who were cleaning gutters in clothes shop Monsoon, attempted to move it from one side of the shop to the other without dismantling it.

The initial crash was halted by a street sign, which gave other traders time to quickly get out of the way. Just minutes later the tower crashed to the ground.

No one was hurt.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) along with Hampshire County Council investigated the incident.

A spokeswoman for the HSE, said: “HSE liaised with HCC and ensured there was no ongoing risk. No legal proceedings under health and safety legislation have resulted.”

Winchester city councillor Ian Tait who said at the time of the incident that it was a “disgrace” that it happened, said: “It is disappointing but it is no more than I would expect because when I phoned up the Health and Safety Executive some years ago when they were erecting scaffolding in the centre of Winchester.

“There were people throwing couplings instead of taking them up in a bucket and it was very dangerous.

“I phoned the police and then the Health and Safety Executive and it was a pointless phone call and they said they were not proactive.”

“For me the common sense reaction to this incident was that it was dangerous and something should be done about it.”