Pensioner dies in blaze at flat

A fire which killed a pensioner in her flat in the Ards Peninsula in Co Down may have been caused by a lit candle or a cigarette, it emerged today.

Pensioner dies in blaze at flat

A fire which killed a pensioner in her flat in the Ards Peninsula in Co Down may have been caused by a lit candle or a cigarette, it emerged today.

The 80-year-old woman died last night when her ground floor flat caught alight in High Street in Portaferry, which overlooks Strangford Lough.

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