21/07/2014 BBC Points West

Good evening. forward to it.

First tonight, with a fire raging at a recycling plant in Swindon,

people living nearby have been told to stay indoors.

Plumes of black smoke have been seen across the town, and our reporter

Waste and I can see flames in there and the thick smoke is still rising

high into the sky from the Averies Recycling Centre here in Swindon. It

can be seen for miles around. What the pictures cannot tell you about

is the thick powerful mel of burning rubbish that is hanging in the air

here. It is a household waste and building waste recycling site so

there is all sorts of different materials and there. Woods, paper,

plastic, all sorts of flammable stuff. The police have sealed off

the area along with the county's Fire and Rescue Service. They were

called after five o'clock this evening when it is believed the fire

began. We have fire appliances and other specialist vehicles. 52

firefight altogether. We have got is a rounded and it will be a long job,

unfortunately. One of those areas we frequently have to just monitor, let

it burn out is probably the quickest way of dealing with it. People

living around the site have been told to keep their doors and windows

closed overnight. The fire is not expected to be put out tonight, I am

being told it could burn for several days yet. In a weekend when storms

battered the West, one woman who was struck by lightning inside her house

says she is lucky to be alive. The women from Chippenham was alone with

her children on Saturday when the lightning bolt hit, knocking her

backwards and setting the house on fire.

Like hundreds of others, Jenny Lyon took a video

of the spectacular storm on her phone, little did she know about 12

hours later the lightning would strike quite so close to home.

It shook me back like that as I was on the phone to my son.

I felt the force on my head, I've got a bruise and a lump.

And the next thing I know, my daughter came running in

I was in shock because I was still not with it,

When I ran in there and saw the room, I panicked.

As the ambulance records show, the lightning had actually gone

I was struck on my head there, travelled through this arm, down to

The ambulance men said you were saved by your flip`flops.

They said if I had not had flip`flops on, I was sat on the bed,

I probably wouldn't be here, it would probably have killed my heart.

The house now needs completely rewiring.

This was the socket that was blown out of my daughter's bedroom wall.

Outside there is little sign of the damage caused.

Unlike this house in Gloucester, which had its roof badly damaged

The Fire Brigade in Wiltshire describe the storms

On Saturday alone, they had more than 100 calls for help.

The storms may be over for now but more is forecast

After clearing up this weekend's damage, Jenny is

sincerely hoping that lightning really doesn't strike twice.

It could have been so much worse, couldn't it?

I've never experienced anything like that in my life.

I'll never experienced anything like that again, to be honest with you.

Wiltshire police are appealing for witnesses after

a six`year`old girl died following a car crash at the weekend.

The accident, which involved one vehicle, a blue Land Rover,

happened in the village of Marston Meysey on Saturday lunchtime.

Officers are asking for anyone who saw the incident, or saw the car

A mother says she's shocked and angry to be told that she isn't

authorised to take her severely ill son out of school to go on holiday.

Maxine Ingrouille`Kidd wants to take her 13`year`old son Curtis

She's been told his absence cannot be authorised

under new guidelines, because the situation is not "extraordinary."

In this household, time together is precious.

He could, say doctors, die within a few years.

Maxine booked a nine`day cruise in October during term time

but was told by her school that her case was not extraordinary.

A covering letter explained that in some circumstances parents can

be committing an offence and face a potential fine of ?1000.

We live day to day with Curtis having many seizures.

If anything happened to Curtis and we hadn't gone, I don't think I

It seems a tough decision by the school but under a truancy

crackdown by the former Education Secretary Michael Gove, heads are

not allowed to grant 10 days of discretionary holiday any more.

Today, the BBC was told by Somerset County Council that

in this case, there was never any intention to fine the family.

A procedure was followed and was there good enough communication

This muddle over term time holidays has caused a backlash.

Nationally, a quarter of a million parents have

signed a petition to go back to the old system where heads dealt with

As for Maxine and Curtis, relief at today's news that although

the holiday is not authorised, there would not be any punishment.

Now, we'll have the latest on the fire at that recycling plant

in Swindon when we're back as part of Breakfast in the morning.

But for now after a lovely hot day, it's time to hand you on to Ian

Temperatures will be on the right tomorrow. Dry, sunny and warm,

tomorrow, hot arguably and through the course of two night. It will be

a mild affair. 15 or 16 Celsius. Towards the East, you may well find

by daybreak that there is some low cloud coming across from the North

Sea. That will start to break up, the bulk of you will start to break

up, the bulk of you. With sunshine. Through the course of the day, fair

weather, cloud say there will be strong sunshine around, the UV

levels as high as they get in the British Isles and the pollen count

moderate. Moderate breeze, a very warm feel to things, temperatures

could get as high as 2627 out towards the east. Similar

temperatures by mid week and towards the latter stages, if there is are

starting to destabilise, a risk of showers and thunderstorms but not

necessarily everywhere. Good evening. If you were

unfortunate enough to be at the sharp end of the weekend storms

you'll be pleased to know that the atmosphere is less volatile now.

Temperatures of 28 Celsius on the Sussex coast today. Most places were

fine and warm. In Scotland it was cool with the

breeze off the sea. Some eastern coasts will be cooler. They will be

the exception. Most of us very warm and the vast majority will stay dry.

That is the way overnight. A lot of low cloud drifting to eastern

counties. Misty towards the north-eastern coast of Scotland.

Maybe the odd spot of rain over Northern Ireland. Dry. A muggy,

humid night. It will be a cloudy old start over some eastern counties.

That will gradually thin and retreat towards coastal areas. Patchy rain

over the west of Northern Ireland. Mid-afternoon and some of these

numbers might be on the conservative side. I would not be surprised