Runaways drummer Sandy West dies, aged 47

Sandy West, whose ferocious drumming fuelled the influential all-female 70s US rock band the Runaways, which she co-founded with Joan Jett, has died of lung cancer. She was 47.

West died on Saturday night at a hospice in San Dimas, east of Los Angeles, California, her manager Mara Fox said. She was diagnosed a year ago.