AN inquest into the death of a man who perished in a flat fire on Saturday was due to open today.

Labourer Andrew Green, aged 42, and his daughter Lisa, aged 18, were in his flat in Sheepscombe Drive, Warndon, Worcester, when the blaze broke out in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Firefighters put out the inferno and Mr Green's body was removed from the flat just before 10am.

His daughter was visiting from the Gloucestershire area.

She was taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital and later transferred to Selly Oak Hospital, in Birmingham, where her condition is described as stable.

The inquest will take place at Stourport-on-Severn.