AN ELDERLY couple were taken to hospital after their shower short circuited and filled their home with smoke.
Pensioners Derek and Mary Hamer, aged 81 and 78, of Dewhurst Clough Road, Egerton, were woken in the early hours by their smoke alarm.
They called firefighters who gave them oxygen at the scene. Both suffered the effects of smoke inhalation.
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