Lightning set the root of a bungalow ablaze during a freak storm which hit the Wantage area of West Berkshire last night.
The lightning struck the chimney of a bungalow in Church Path. Stanford in the Vale. near Wantage, starting a fire in the roof and putting all the electricity in Mr. John Lorenz's home out of action. Firemen from Wantage and Faringdon were called to the bungalow and had to use breathing masks to tackle the root with hose reels. Damage was confined to the root timbers.