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Thanks for taking a look, I’ll give that temp fix a go.
The repair sounds like more work than I had hoped and it’ll drive me crazy if the new tiles and ridge don’t match as It’s all visible from the ground as well as house. I have two spare tiles ready from a neighbour and an architectural salvage place nearby has similar too. I’m not so sure about the ridge.
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Your best bet is to get something like a rubble sack or heavy plastic sheet and push it as far as you can up under the tile directly under the ridge tile. Then try to introduce some tension into it, maybe by weighting the bottom edge, so that water running down it doesn't weigh it down and create a pool.
If you cover the ridge water will likely still be able to get into the breakage.
A roofer repairing that will need to take off probably 3 of the ridge (which will break), and will need at least 3 of those rare-looking tiles.