Runaway trampoline hops half a mile in gale

The runaway bouncer narrowly missed a conservatory, wrecked a chicken pen and hopped over a tall fence before its mangled remains came to rest.

“It looks like it’s just dropped out of space. There are big dents in the ground where it has hopped along,” said owner Terry Moore (53) of Sandbeck Lane, Tickhill.

“What people will think as they drive past, I don’t know.

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“It’s amusing, but it could have been very expensive. I’d better go and move it soon—I don’t think the farmer will be too happy if I leave it there.”

Meanwhile, pensioner Joe Foulstone called the emergency services  after a tree blew down onto a neighbour’s car in Sandymount Road, Wath.

Mr Foulstone, who had complained the tree was dangerous, said:

“My wife sleeps next to the window and heard the tree go. I came out into the street while she phoned 999. It was rotten and dead and the whole lot had gone.”

Mr Foulstone was unable to wake the owners, Andy and Jane Cochrane so he dialled 999 and police and emergency workers arrived at 1am with a chainsaw to chop the tree up.

 “We’d both been out all day and were tired out, so when I heard this knocking I went to the window and it looked like someone was cutting the car in half because I was still half asleep,” said Jane.

90mph winds bring danger and delays for commuters.