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Here come the storms! Lightning, hail and four inches of rain batter staycationers on the south coast overnight after Met Office issued rare warning urging campers to avoid tents and caravans amid 55mph winds
Pictures shared to social media showed bright forks of lightning in Dorset as storm hit south coast overnight
Met Office predicts up to 4in (100mm) of rain this weekend compared to UK August average of 2.8in (69mm)
Thunderstorm warning is in place until 10pm on Saturday, with heavy rain to cause disruption and flooding
British Holiday and Home Parks Association estimated 90 per cent of sites are fully booked for the next week
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With foreign holidays still in doubt and Cornwall filling up by the day, Jessica Webb has a unique perspective on “freedom day”. With her sister, Naomi, and her father, Spence, she helps run Falmouth Surf School and Watersports on Maenporth beach. Bookings for surf lessons are strong, and Jessica, 38, has started running yoga classes on paddleboards anchored in the cove to cope with excess demand.
She is also a part-time healthcare assistant in the A&E department at Cornwall’s only major hospital, in Treliske. “Even now, before the summer holidays have started, we don’t have enough staff in the hospital, people are waiting hours at A&E, the ambulances are all parked up outside,” she says. “There’s just so little capacity and so few beds – even for the people that live here all the time, let alone all the holidaymakers.