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Hello again, we have cut some flooring up and found the leak! It's on a compression fitting just under floorboards....not sure why it stopped when we removed toilet yesterday....now to try and fix it..
As mentioned above, I expect that when the toilet was connected it put some strain on the pipework and opened a leak on a "just about sealed" compression fitting. With the toilet disconnected the pipework was able to relax a bit, just enough to stop the leak. It's amazing the weird stuff fittings and water can do at times.
I've seen fittings that were fluxed but missed at the point of soldering not leak for years, held together by the dried on flux. I've touch the pipe and it's fallen apart and started leaking.
I hope you've managed to sort your leak out and all is back to normal by now or at least on its way.