A leisure centre in Birmingham has been forced to close after a house exploded on the same street, leaving a woman dead. The Sunday night blast in Dulwich Road, Kingstanding, left one property ...

Opening the hearing, Birmingham and Solihull Area Coroner James Bennett said the blast sent roof tiles through the windows of a leisure centre 114ft (35m) away.

Ghislaine Evans, a resident at Care UK’s Mercia Grange, on Lichfield Road, was overjoyed when the team organised for her to visit Kingstanding Leisure Centre in Birmingham, where she had spent ...

A 79-year-old great-grandmother died in a “very significant” house explosion, thought to have been caused by a “decades-old” faulty copper gas pipe join, an inquest has heard.

Several other nearby homes suffered major damage. Opening the hearing, Birmingham and Solihull Area Coroner James Bennett said the blast sent roof tiles through the windows of a leisure centre ...