"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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"N Cook" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
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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.

I did hear the dreaded words 'mini-tornado' in a TV news report
earlier though.
Assuming the buildings are of similar brick construction to those
involved in the Birmingham tornado of a few years ago, it look
significantly more serious than that.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl