| A family of four from Pewsey has spoken of its narrow escape from the flooding disaster that devastated the Cornish village of Boscastle. |
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| Motorists had a narrow escape when a lorry carrying heavy scrap metal crashed into a bridge, shedding its load. |
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| A lawyer and his family who had a narrow escape in the tsunami disaster are working in two hospitals to help the injured survivors. |
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| A lorry driver and his colleague had a narrow escape when a brick hurled by youths struck just centimetres from the windscreen. |
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| A Cranmore woman had a narrow escape when a bullet smashed through the front window of her car during last weekend's shooting. |
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| A Kirkby Lonsdale woman had a narrow escape when lightning struck the shop she was working in as a violent thunderstorm engulfed the town. |
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| We opted for the bottled water and thanked our lucky stars for our narrow escape. |
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| The implication reminded Smollett of a narrow escape from a duello at Ghent in 1749 with a Frenchman. |
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| Her 18-month old baby had a narrow escape when an attic ceiling collapsed close to her cot. |
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| An Ambleside man had a narrow escape after stumbling and sinking up to his armpits in a bog while walking on the Lake District fells, reports Paul Duncan. |
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| A dream holiday in the Caribbean turned into a narrow escape for a pair of friends from Trowbridge as they found themselves in the path of a hurricane. |
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| The only light relief is the story of a narrow escape from death. |
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| Customers and staff at the hotel had a narrow escape after a masked man threw a holdall containing an explosive device into the reception area. |
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| In Tadcaster, a man had a narrow escape early today when he hit a wall of flood water on the B1223, near Ulleskelf, and aquaplaned across a road into a ditch. |
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| When I went to live there, I had to face a narrow escape from the aerial bombing of that area. |
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| Residents in a block of flats in Epsom had a narrow escape on Valentine's Day when a fire in a basement flat threatened to engulf the three-storey block. |
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| More recently he had a narrow escape when a motorist suddenly changed lanes and crossed right in front of him, forcing him to swerve to avoid a collision. |
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| The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws. |
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| On March 10, the Evening Press reported that four householders in the village had a narrow escape when a car skidded off the road and ploughed into two houses. |
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| No serious injuries were reported but the car driver had a narrow escape. |
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| Last year, Kevin had a narrow escape when a stunt went horribly wrong. |
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| In York, one family had a narrow escape when a tree fell on their car. |
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| Aquiles Zonio of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, one of only three survivors, tells of his narrow escape and the continuing climate of fear. |
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| That, however, was until Serge Deble popped up with five minutes remaining to score the goal that handed the Ivorians a narrow escape. |
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| The accused will see that he had a narrow escape on appeal, and so even a light sentence may thus have an extra deterrent effect. |
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| He had a narrow escape from death, when in an incautious landing several of his companions were killed by people of Seram. |
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| For Mr. Basescu, 60, it was a relatively narrow escape. |
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| Journalist Aquiles Zonio, one of only three survivors of the Maguindanao massacre, tells of his narrow escape and the continuing climate of fear in the region. |
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| The Spanish fled for the Tlaxcaltec during the Noche Triste, where they managed a narrow escape while their backguard was massacred. |
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| During this time he met Flora Macdonald, who famously aided him in a narrow escape to Skye. |
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| Jeremy Paxman's probing interview with Silvio Berlusconi may have garnered plenty of headlines, but Newsnight had a narrow escape after a bungle in the emailed transcript of the exchanges sent under embargo to journalists. |
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| But even knowing that he had a narrow escape from injury or death, the 50-year-old Manhattanite does not regret his choice. |
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| Perhaps she thought that by taking the huge gamble of misspeaking one more time about her narrow escape on the tarmac at Tuzla, she could compensate for misvoting on Iraq. |
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