Lightning hits 2
ANDREW WILSON, 23, from Gilberdyke, Humberside, was killed by lightning as he played football for his village team near Goole. But rubber fisherman's boots saved the life of Mark Davison, 33, of Whitley Bay, who was struck by a bolt which bounced off the mast of his 24- foot fishing boat.
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