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Cigarette May Have Been To Blame For Fatal Fire 

Jump to full article: Northern Echo (Darlington, UK), 2008-04-23
Author: David Roberts

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A FIRE which killed a woman in her first floor flat may have been started by a lit cigarette.

Yesterday, police named the victim of the fire in Darlington on Tuesday evening as 49-year-old Pauline Nixon. . . .

Ms Nixon, who had one daughter, lived alone, except for two parakeets and a miniature Yorkshire Terrier.

The birds were found dead in the flat.

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