Renovation work on £15m home of ex-Baggies owner spooked military horses
Noise from building work on a £15 million house owned by former West Bromwich Albion chairman Jeremy Peace was the cause of three horses from the household cavalry bolting in central London.
A total of five military horses were spooked when rubble crashed onto the floor during renovation work on the multi-millionaire businessman's town house resulting in four service staff being thrown from their mount.
Three soldiers and a cyclist were injured as the animals galloped through the streets smashing into cars, a taxi and a double-decker tourist bus on Wednesday morning.
The mayhem is being blamed on noise from work on a basement extension at the Peace family's five-floor Belgravia home close to the Bangladesh High Commission and the Argentine and Mexican Embassies.
The drama began near Buckingham Palace Road where witnesses saw a serviceman thrown from his horse, and one of the loose animals crashed into a taxi waiting outside the Clermont Hotel shattering the windows. Another of the animals crashed into a tour bus, smashing the windscreen.
