The family of a 79-year-old great-grandmother killed in a house blast triggered by a "decades-old" faulty copper gas pipe have praised "brave" rescuers who tried to save her.
An inquest jury concluded on Tuesday that the death of retired pub landlady Doreen Mace, originally from Birmingham, was accidental.
She died at a house owned by her partner, David Murphy, in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding on June 26 last year, in a blast that caused what the coroner described as a "Hollywood film-esque level of destruction".
