Our sympathies go to Steve and Gill Miles, who went to bed peacefully on the Sunday night of the big storm (October 27th) and awoke to find the willow tree in their front drive had impaled their lovely car.
They live at “Freshford” Horsington, opposite the pub.
A question for the amateur lawyers in our midst: Do they claim on their home or motor insurance? If the latter, can they recover their excess from the former? Or vice versa?
Happily this traumatic event did not bring on a heart attack – just as well as the much-discussed proposed defibrillator is still being passed from one department to another at Somerset County Council.