A WOMAN is fighting for her life after a fire ripped through a block of flats leaving neighbours unable to go home for Christmas.

Firefighters were called to Bell Road at 2.22am on Monday where a blaze had taken hold of a ground floor property.

The home was destroyed, with smoke affecting the seven other flats in the block.

A 50-year-old woman was taken to Salisbury District Hospital in a life-threatening condition with serious burns, where she remained for four days as the Advertiser went to print.

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