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Should have said - the shop I bought it from (fully built up) is building me a complete new wheel, rims, royce hub, the works (as you'd expect). Apparently it's a first, they've never seen it happen before - hopefully I'll get an explanation of sorts when they've done all their investigations and x-rays etc. I presume slight wobble was the first indication of failure and then the tension caused it to pull itself apart? Whatever it is it's a manufacturing defect of some description.
We'll see...
Just fecking lucky I wasn't riding the bike when it went otherwise there'd have been a whole lot more fail, probably involving my face + traffic + tarmac.