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"You can imagine my response, I said you can't knock my garage down as it's an integral part of my house and it includes my utility room which houses my heating and hot water. So they found another way."

"I work with air fryers all the time. I've got one in the utility room and four in the kitchen," she added.

On Christmas Day, Mr Hammond asked Ellen to go into the utility room where she found the record player playing one of their favourite records, A Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles.

Carbon monoxide concentrations greater than 4,000 parts per million were recorded inside the utility room, and concentrations greater than 1,000 ppm were recorded in one of the bedrooms.

“What I told Juno is that Dot is not a large person, she’s not a ninja, but what she has is an active imagination. She has an ability to be creative in her thinking under extreme pressure. There is a kind of ‘Home Alone’ or even ‘Die Hard’ quality to the show at times as this woman, who you see is outnumbered and seemingly with no options, but it’s amazing what she can find in the kitchen or the utility room to fend off some attackers.