Magnifying glass alert after OAP accidently set fire to care home

Mar 3 2009 by Rebekah Oruye, Birmingham Mail

A DAZED, elderly woman was helped to safety after sunlight reflecting from a magnifying glass set her bed alight in the Edgbaston Beaumont care home. The woman in her 80s uses an enlargement screen and had left it resting against her living room window on Monday.