Around Puy-en-Velay the country is laid waste, and the soil broken up by a terrible tempest, a fierce hailstorm, and a deluge of rain.

All she saw fit to mention was that Derbyshire was windy, and that after a fierce hailstorm in Cornwall her "dust coate" dried off quickly.

DHAKA, May 25 (Reuters) - Lightning during a fierce hailstorm in Bangladesh killed 12 people and injured 30, police and disaster management officials said.