West set for stormy bank holiday weekend
The bank holiday weekend is set to be a washout for the South West with showers predicted for Saturday and Sunday while the AA has warned the region’s roads may come to a standstill with the extra holiday traffic.Despite hopes for a repeat of last weekend’s heat wave the misery of rain and traffic jams seemed likely as the bad weather first struck yesterday. Thunder storms were so extreme in Gloucester fire crews were called when lightening struck a house causing it to catch fire at…