A powerful kite whipped a grandad off his feet, dragged him across the road and smashed him into a wall. Brian Phillipson, 72, got tangled in the cord as he tried to unravel it from his car exhaust.

“When I was a young boy of say five years, I remember the sky studded with kites at sunset... they looked like stars. I tried to make one with some newspaper or cement paper as I had no money to buy ...