:00:12. > :00:12.Good evening. forward to it.
:00:13. > :00:15.First tonight, with a fire raging at a recycling plant in Swindon,
:00:16. > :00:17.people living nearby have been told to stay indoors.
:00:18. > :00:20.Plumes of black smoke have been seen across the town, and our reporter
:00:21. > :00:35.Waste and I can see flames in there and the thick smoke is still rising
:00:36. > :00:40.high into the sky from the Averies Recycling Centre here in Swindon. It
:00:41. > :00:45.can be seen for miles around. What the pictures cannot tell you about
:00:46. > :00:50.is the thick powerful mel of burning rubbish that is hanging in the air
:00:51. > :00:53.here. It is a household waste and building waste recycling site so
:00:54. > :01:00.there is all sorts of different materials and there. Woods, paper,
:01:01. > :01:04.plastic, all sorts of flammable stuff. The police have sealed off
:01:05. > :01:08.the area along with the county's Fire and Rescue Service. They were
:01:09. > :01:15.called after five o'clock this evening when it is believed the fire
:01:16. > :01:20.began. We have fire appliances and other specialist vehicles. 52
:01:21. > :01:26.firefight altogether. We have got is a rounded and it will be a long job,
:01:27. > :01:30.unfortunately. One of those areas we frequently have to just monitor, let
:01:31. > :01:35.it burn out is probably the quickest way of dealing with it. People
:01:36. > :01:39.living around the site have been told to keep their doors and windows
:01:40. > :01:44.closed overnight. The fire is not expected to be put out tonight, I am
:01:45. > :01:56.being told it could burn for several days yet. In a weekend when storms
:01:57. > :02:00.battered the West, one woman who was struck by lightning inside her house
:02:01. > :02:04.says she is lucky to be alive. The women from Chippenham was alone with
:02:05. > :02:07.her children on Saturday when the lightning bolt hit, knocking her
:02:08. > :02:11.backwards and setting the house on fire.
:02:12. > :02:14.Like hundreds of others, Jenny Lyon took a video
:02:15. > :02:17.of the spectacular storm on her phone, little did she know about 12
:02:18. > :02:22.hours later the lightning would strike quite so close to home.
:02:23. > :02:27.It shook me back like that as I was on the phone to my son.
:02:28. > :02:31.I felt the force on my head, I've got a bruise and a lump.
:02:32. > :02:35.And the next thing I know, my daughter came running in
:02:36. > :02:40.I was in shock because I was still not with it,
:02:41. > :02:45.When I ran in there and saw the room, I panicked.
:02:46. > :02:48.As the ambulance records show, the lightning had actually gone
:02:49. > :02:54.I was struck on my head there, travelled through this arm, down to
:02:55. > :02:59.The ambulance men said you were saved by your flip`flops.
:03:00. > :03:03.They said if I had not had flip`flops on, I was sat on the bed,
:03:04. > :03:08.I probably wouldn't be here, it would probably have killed my heart.
:03:09. > :03:11.The house now needs completely rewiring.
:03:12. > :03:14.This was the socket that was blown out of my daughter's bedroom wall.
:03:15. > :03:18.Outside there is little sign of the damage caused.
:03:19. > :03:20.Unlike this house in Gloucester, which had its roof badly damaged
:03:21. > :03:25.The Fire Brigade in Wiltshire describe the storms
:03:26. > :03:32.On Saturday alone, they had more than 100 calls for help.
:03:33. > :03:34.The storms may be over for now but more is forecast
:03:35. > :03:37.After clearing up this weekend's damage, Jenny is
:03:38. > :03:44.sincerely hoping that lightning really doesn't strike twice.
:03:45. > :03:46.It could have been so much worse, couldn't it?
:03:47. > :03:48.I've never experienced anything like that in my life.
:03:49. > :03:51.I'll never experienced anything like that again, to be honest with you.
:03:52. > :03:58.Wiltshire police are appealing for witnesses after
:03:59. > :04:02.a six`year`old girl died following a car crash at the weekend.
:04:03. > :04:05.The accident, which involved one vehicle, a blue Land Rover,
:04:06. > :04:09.happened in the village of Marston Meysey on Saturday lunchtime.
:04:10. > :04:12.Officers are asking for anyone who saw the incident, or saw the car
:04:13. > :04:20.A mother says she's shocked and angry to be told that she isn't
:04:21. > :04:24.authorised to take her severely ill son out of school to go on holiday.
:04:25. > :04:28.Maxine Ingrouille`Kidd wants to take her 13`year`old son Curtis
:04:29. > :04:33.She's been told his absence cannot be authorised
:04:34. > :04:35.under new guidelines, because the situation is not "extraordinary."
:04:36. > :04:44.In this household, time together is precious.
:04:45. > :04:53.He could, say doctors, die within a few years.
:04:54. > :04:58.Maxine booked a nine`day cruise in October during term time
:04:59. > :05:03.but was told by her school that her case was not extraordinary.
:05:04. > :05:07.A covering letter explained that in some circumstances parents can
:05:08. > :05:12.be committing an offence and face a potential fine of ?1000.
:05:13. > :05:18.We live day to day with Curtis having many seizures.
:05:19. > :05:22.If anything happened to Curtis and we hadn't gone, I don't think I
:05:23. > :05:31.It seems a tough decision by the school but under a truancy
:05:32. > :05:34.crackdown by the former Education Secretary Michael Gove, heads are
:05:35. > :05:36.not allowed to grant 10 days of discretionary holiday any more.
:05:37. > :05:40.Today, the BBC was told by Somerset County Council that
:05:41. > :05:45.in this case, there was never any intention to fine the family.
:05:46. > :05:48.A procedure was followed and was there good enough communication
:05:49. > :05:56.This muddle over term time holidays has caused a backlash.
:05:57. > :05:58.Nationally, a quarter of a million parents have
:05:59. > :06:02.signed a petition to go back to the old system where heads dealt with
:06:03. > :06:09.As for Maxine and Curtis, relief at today's news that although
:06:10. > :06:18.the holiday is not authorised, there would not be any punishment.
:06:19. > :06:21.Now, we'll have the latest on the fire at that recycling plant
:06:22. > :06:23.in Swindon when we're back as part of Breakfast in the morning.
:06:24. > :06:25.But for now after a lovely hot day, it's time to hand you on to Ian
:06:26. > :06:43.Temperatures will be on the right tomorrow. Dry, sunny and warm,
:06:44. > :06:48.tomorrow, hot arguably and through the course of two night. It will be
:06:49. > :06:54.a mild affair. 15 or 16 Celsius. Towards the East, you may well find
:06:55. > :06:57.by daybreak that there is some low cloud coming across from the North
:06:58. > :07:00.Sea. That will start to break up, the bulk of you will start to break
:07:01. > :07:04.up, the bulk of you. With sunshine. Through the course of the day, fair
:07:05. > :07:08.weather, cloud say there will be strong sunshine around, the UV
:07:09. > :07:14.levels as high as they get in the British Isles and the pollen count
:07:15. > :07:18.moderate. Moderate breeze, a very warm feel to things, temperatures
:07:19. > :07:22.could get as high as 2627 out towards the east. Similar
:07:23. > :07:29.temperatures by mid week and towards the latter stages, if there is are
:07:30. > :07:30.starting to destabilise, a risk of showers and thunderstorms but not
:07:31. > :07:40.necessarily everywhere. Good evening. If you were
:07:41. > :07:46.unfortunate enough to be at the sharp end of the weekend storms
:07:47. > :07:51.you'll be pleased to know that the atmosphere is less volatile now.
:07:52. > :07:55.Temperatures of 28 Celsius on the Sussex coast today. Most places were
:07:56. > :07:59.fine and warm. In Scotland it was cool with the
:08:00. > :08:04.breeze off the sea. Some eastern coasts will be cooler. They will be
:08:05. > :08:09.the exception. Most of us very warm and the vast majority will stay dry.
:08:10. > :08:13.That is the way overnight. A lot of low cloud drifting to eastern
:08:14. > :08:17.counties. Misty towards the north-eastern coast of Scotland.
:08:18. > :08:23.Maybe the odd spot of rain over Northern Ireland. Dry. A muggy,
:08:24. > :08:29.humid night. It will be a cloudy old start over some eastern counties.
:08:30. > :08:32.That will gradually thin and retreat towards coastal areas. Patchy rain
:08:33. > :08:38.over the west of Northern Ireland. Mid-afternoon and some of these
:08:39. > :08:39.numbers might be on the conservative side. I would not be surprised