But it turned out to be an earthquake instead . .

Seems Manchester, Hull, Birmingham and London felt the tremors of a 5.3 Richter Scale tremor in the early hours of this morning, the epicentre was apparently somewhere near Market Rasen in Lincolnshire.

Didn’t feel much myself over here, but it seems quite a lot of Mancunians where awoken by the tremors, maybe I’m just a heavy sleeper, anyway this is the 2nd tremor Manchester’s felt in the past 3-4 years, the last one was apparently more significant as it caused a slip road onto the M60 to crack, but no such damage here this time round.