Ash falling from sky 'like shaved charcoal' in southern France, says Scottish tourist

Scottish tourist Robin Jamieson has described seeing a "huge dark plume of smoke billowing out to sea" from the beach in Lacanau yesterday morning, around 10km north of the fire in southern France. By the afternoon, a cloud had "blackened out the whole sky" and ash was falling from the air "like shaved charcoal", he tells Radio 4's Today programme. He describes an "acrid smell" this morning, saying there was a little bit of rain overnight, but that thunder