Exocet missile

"So when I changed my name and became Elton John, I just went off like an Exocet missile, and I had a great time. I lived my teenage years in my 20s, basically."

Wendy Bagshaw said the firework sounded like "an Exocet missile" hitting the roof.

"I can only describe it as an Exocet missile, just came at the house," she said.

Twenty people died and 26 were injured when HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the early days of the 1982 conflict.

Rob Wilson, the Conservative culture minister who lost his Reading East seat, said the manifesto had struck an ”Exocet missile through the heart of our main supporters” and that the party cannot be run by such a small group of people.