A WIDOW has paid tribute to her war veteran husband who died following a collision with a car outside his home in Sinton Green, near Worcester.

Raymond Baker, aged 86, who suffered from Alzheimer's Disease in recent years, had a leg broken in the accident on Sunday, January 26, and was taken to Worcestershire Royal Infirmary.

He died in hospital shortly before 5pm last Thursday.

An inquest opening, held at Stourport-on-Severn yesterday, revealed that he died from heart failure, for which his fractured right tibia was a contributing factor.

The hearing was adjourned it for three months.

"He was a lovely man and a wonderful husband," said his widow Margery Baker, also 86.

Mr Baker, a native of Worcester, had lived for 40 years in Sinton Green with his wife and her sister Betty Hubband.

"He was an engineer in the war and did electrical installations and that sort of thing. He went to Iceland, the West Indies, Africa and Burma," said Mrs Baker.

After the war, Mr Baker returned to work with County Magneto, a radio and television shop based in Worcester's City Walls Road, where he worked until retirement.