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SMOKING CLUE AFTER BLAZE KILLS WOMAN 

A Fire which killed an elderly woman may have been caused by her smoking in bed, say detectives.

The blaze in a first-floor bedroom in Silver Close, Biddulph, was initially treated as suspicious and police were called in to work alongside fire investigators. Firefighters from Burslem and Biddulph were called out to the incident at about 1am on Saturday. Officers wearing breathing apparatus smashed their way into the one-bedroom property, and pulled the woman, believed to be aged 82, out of the building, but she died of her injuries later in hospital.

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