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Patients evacuated from 'suspicious' hospice fire

Patients have been evacuated from a hospice in St. Lenonards after a fire, which police are treating as suspicious

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Hospice CEO says staff on night of fire were 'true heroines'

Police are continuing to question a man on suspicion of murder after a fire at a hospice in Sussex.

Two residents, a 62-year-old woman and an 81-year-old man, died when they breathed in smoke at St. Michael's in St. Leonards.

A woman in her seventies has also died but it's unclear whether her death is connected to the blaze.

We spoke to Celia Pyke-Lees, who is the Chief Executive of St Michael's Hospice.

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