Actually I believe that the BBC headline do not fit in with the photo, the clouds may have been seen over Scarborough. but not by the person who took the photo.
I think the photo was taken somewhere on Royal Albert drive, north of the town. Looking Northwards towards the Sealife centre.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.291259,-0.404788,3a,75y,336.56h,87.97t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1saId-pBBmtyJAKwEbCNi8Dw!2e0?hl=en-GB

The horizon and rails seem to match, but seem to be more lights, but then the Google pics were from 2011.

Caused by bird strike.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/update_report_into_cley_helicopter_crash_finds_us_air_force_pilots_knocked_unconscious_by_multiple_bird_strikes_1_3676291

Close enough for me, I’d had a passenger in my pants.

Odd one this.

In response to Mr Strickland’s request, Offley Parish Council clerk David Sample wrote in an emai: “After much debate it was decided against particularly commemorating this event as the parish council did not want to offend any other areas of the parish where we do not have details of other events.

If no one knows of any events then how can they be offended?

Perhaps Mr Strickland should approach Moulding plant who are at West end Farm.

It is also strange that Elsie’s name is not on the war memorial.

The parish council said it would add the name of Elsie Handley as a serving member of the armed forces to the Offley War Memorial.

HANDLEY, ELSIE
Rank:PrivateService No:W/83086 Date of Death:18/07/1944 Age:28 Regiment/Service:Auxiliary Territorial Service Grave Reference New Part. Row 3. Grave 19.CemeteryOFFLEY (ST. MARY MAGDALENE) CHURCHYARD

Think a change of parish councillor’s is needed.

Had they parachuted then surely they would have been discovered before now? Bodies don’t tend to lay around on the surface undiscovered for long, generally. But since the Lanc crashed, without the two missing crew being found, it might be reasonable to assume that their bodies were consumed in the destruction beyond the ability available at the time to recover them; surely this makes it a grave site? The site is known, is not all that big (relatively), and there is a good chance that the undiscovered crew are lying there, in spirit if nothing else; surely that makes it a grave site?

It also might be reasonable to be presumed that the bodies are not on the site. This crash was just off marsh road. So if they had baled out, fell out and dropped into Marshy ground before the parachutes opened they would have been instantly buried without a trace.
Stainforth and keadby canal and Clearwater lake are in close proximity to the crash site.

Just remembered Mimoyecques operation was shown in What the Dambusters did next.
http://www.channel5.com/shows/what-the-dambusters-did-next/episodes/what-the-dambusters-did-next
34 min in to 38mins.

B 24 loaded with high explosive…No 1 son of Joe Kennedy flying it…….exploded over Kent on its way to French target…..Kennedy killed.

Not quite correct Xtangomike.

August 12th 1944. Target, V1 site at Mimoyecques. PB4Y-1 (ex USAAF B-24 J 42- 110007). The single US Navy BQ-8 took off from Fersfield, heading towards Southwold. At an altitude of 2000ft it prematurely detonated over Blyth estuary Suffolk, killing LT Joseph P Kennedy Jr and L T Wilford J Willy. Kennedy’s body was never found.