"N Cook" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
snip
The mini-tornado also swept through three other small towns nearby,
where
the damage was not so seve Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and
Boussieres-sur-Sambre.


.... don't know if it's been corrected since your original post, but
there is no reference to 'mini' in that article: perhaps someone got
at them! Certainly nothing 'mini' from the damage description.

Martin.


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