15 April 2010
Icelandic volcanic ash alert grounds UK flights
One passenger at Glasgow told the BBC: "I'm meant to be going to Lanzarote. We've travelled from Oban, leaving at 3am. Now we've decided we might as well just go home and do a bit of gardening."
15 April 2010
Police investigating the murder of teenager Aamir Siddiqi have sealed off a takeaway restaurant in Cardiff while they search a flat above.
An eyewitness told a Cardiff news agency: "Police have been here all day, I'm not sure what they're doing up there but they're looking for something."
12 April 2010
An animal transporter carrying more than 100 pigs has overturned on the M4 in Wiltshire.
One eyewitness who was stuck in the queue told BBC Wiltshire the traffic was at a standstill.
"There's just miles and miles of traffic in front of us and behind us but we can't see any of the animals here."
12 June 2009
Bird swallows eel after struggle
Eyewitness Antonia Jennings, 18, said at first the cormorant versus eel battle seemed "an unfair fight".
"The eel was bigger, more powerful and looked a lot more dangerous than a bird not much bigger than a duck," she said.
20 August 2008
Public library destroyed by fire
Eyewitness Queenie Spray, who had been out walking her three dogs, said: "I drove past at about half-past-four and there was nothing happening."
8 August 2008
Firefighters tackle church blaze
One eyewitness, Shirley Edson, said: "Thank God there was nobody inside."
16 May 2008
More than 30 firefighters tackled a major blaze overnight in disused industrial premises in West Lothian.
Eyewitness Lindsay Ellis said: "I stayed for an hour and heard a series of bangs, probably coming from the fridges that kept the chickens.
"What probably started as a small innocent fire has now resulted in the place burnt to the ground."
12 May 2008
More than 8,500 people have been killed by a powerful earthquake in China's Sichuan province.
Eyewitness Gilles Barbier: "It was very scary."
1 May 2008
Crocodile sighting in city lake
Stephen Jenkins, from Pontrhydyfen, said: "I was walking my dog and me being a fisherman and being nosy near water - I was having a look and I could see something moving in the water.
"I thought at first it was a fish or something or a log - but there was no wind or anything.
"But I could see the ripples coming off this. I had a closer look and it was about four metres from me.
"I could see the legs and the nose and the tail and everything.
"It just swam down into the deep end, its eyes were just on top of the water as it was moving, the eyes were coming towards me."
A RSPCA spokesman said: "We haven't heard anything more about this but one of our officers went down just to see what is there."
23 April 2008
Investigations are continuing after a major gas explosion at a disused pub in Leeds which left five people injured.
Joe Walsh, 14, who was passing the site with his father when the explosion happened, told the BBC he thought a car had exploded.
He said: "It was really loud."
12 November 2007
The black cloud over London
Eyewitness Paul Hallam, 50, a production worker at a nearby printing firm, said: "We noticed it was getting a bit misty outside and then it was getting more and more smoky. The whole of that building, about the size of a football pitch, went up."
Eye witness Danny Cherry, 30, a print worker, said: "People were saying it was the old bus depot, but I think it's actually an old clothes factory. It's an old building that they were going to knock down anyway."
Retired builder Joseph O'Halloran, from Forest Gate, was going to have a look at the Olympic site when he noticed the smoke. "A bloke told me he saw the roof collapse and the flames were 100 feet high," he said.
Samson Bereket was taking his children Nimrod, three, and Michal, one, to play group close to Victoria Park, when he saw the blaze. "I saw smoke going up and up and then I saw the flames. It looked like a really big fire so I took my kids home quickly," he said.
17 April 2007
Lorry fire at Great Blakenham
Former BBC Radio One presenter Mike Read was at a nearby hotel when the fire broke out: "I've come out this morning and the sky is black. I looked out the window and thought, 'ah it's going to pour with rain'.
"But it's not so much that, as a massive pool of black smoke – there's obviously a major fire. There's been giant flames leaping in the air from somewhere."
16 May 2006
Clean up after tornado hits town
Eyewitness Paul Golthorpe, from Finch Hatton Close in Ruskington, said he had never heard the wind make such an horrendous sound.
A trampoline was also seen by some eyewitnesses flying down the street after it was picked up by the tornado.
11 April 2006
Three workers were injured when scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in the centre of Milton Keynes.
Eyewitness Nick Reynolds said: "It came down like a pack of cards." Others said it sounded like a roll of thunder.
10 October 2005
Pier to cost millions to restore
Mr Watts, a cab driver, said he could see from the shore that the fire was "absolutely huge".
16 January 2005
A man who suffered serious injuries after being doused in petrol, which then ignited, remained under police guard in hospital on Sunday.
Witness David Royale said the man ran into the Museum Pub on fire asking for help. "It was just weird. He was asking bar staff to help so I said give him a bucket of water because he had been set on fire.
"Someone phoned an ambulance and one of the bar staff could smell petrol."
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