UK News 04-08-2004 who: 14 year-old Joseph Wharton what: Killed by lightning strike where: BLOXWICH when: Yesterday snippet: The boy "was found lying in the garden of a friend`s house," says The Telegraph, "where he had been camping, during a thunderstorm." Four women were injured by lightning in Hyde Park, London, as electrical storms swept the country. In other news of tragic mishaps, The Sun reports that a man pruning trees with a chainsaw in Eltham, South East London on Monday "fell from his ladder — and sliced his wife’s head off". [... more]

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