Rain or Shine...

HURRICANES and tornadoes are normally associated with America but Britain has its fair share of twisters, as a Suffolk farmer, Pamela Bowers, found out this week.

She looked out of the kitchen window of her farmhouse in Pentlow, near Sudbury, and saw her seven-year-old collie, Brena, somersaulting past, followed by the dog kennel.

The unfortunate Brena, it seems, had been hit by a tornado that swept through the farmyard, one of up to 50 twisters that strike the British mainland every year.