A YOUNG mum had a miraculous escape when she was struck by lightning.

Sue Bowes needed hospital treatment after a bolt hit her as she stood in her kitchen in Frenchfield Street, Clock Face, last week.

Sue Bowes had just returned from a shopping trip with her mother and baby son, Robert.

She was taken straight to hospital and kept in overnight for observation and is now beginning to recover at home. It was yet another trauma for Sue whose beloved daughter Emma-Louise died in a house fire 12 months ago. Sue has spent the last few months battling both with her grief and the inquest verdict on her daughter's death, which stated that Emma-Louise started the fire herself while playing with a cigarette lighter. Sue said: "Apparently, the lightning had gone through all the other houses in the street and my house on the end was the last one. Luckily my mum was able to make sure my son Robert was OK and I was checked over in hospital.

"I still feel numb all down my left side now and very stiff and sore but otherwise I am OK.."

The lightning also blew a hole in a wall at the home of a couple further up the road.

The couple, both pensioners, don't wish to be named and the man was at a nearby bowling green at the time but his wife was sat in the couple's living room and was very shocked and shaken by her ordeal.

Her husband said: "There had already been a bolt of lightning which hit the bowling green and everyone was running for cover from that when my wife came over and told me our house had been hit as well. The lightning had torn the wallpaper into strips of confetti and also shorted out TV."

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