A 92-year-old pensioner who suffered burns following a gas explosion at her home has died from her injuries in hospital.

Beatrice Jeffery also received cuts to her face and arms in the blast as she tried to boil a kettle in the kitchen of her home in Priory Road, Tonbridge on August 5.

Her condition was initially not thought to be too serious but deteriorated and she died in the burns unit at the Queens Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead in Sussex.

Fire crews from Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells were called to the explosion by neighbours who heard the bang and raised the alarm.

The blast blew out an entire wall. Tonbridge sub officer Mark Woodward said: "If it had been a stronger brick wall on a normal house the blast would have been contained, potentially destroying the property."

It was initially thought that Mrs Jeffery might have left the gas on overnight, but investigators now say her cooker was faulty.