Fireball in Oxfordshire turns sky orange after lightning strike
Onlookers near Oxford have filmed a fireball, after a lightning strike caused a huge gas explosion at a food waste recycling plant.
Six fire engines and 40 firefighters have been deployed to the plant, which processes food waste turning into biogas.
In a statement published on Facebook, Severn Trent Green Power said they could "confirm that at around 1920 this evening, a digester tank at its Cassington AD facility near Yarnton, Oxfordshire, was struck by lightning resulting in the biogas within that tank igniting."
It said nobody had been injured and staff were working with emergency services to secure the site.