A pensioner has described himself as "lucky to be alive" after suffering three near-death experiences in less than a fortnight. Malcolm Ephgrave, carrying his dog Mitch who woke him up, escaped from his first-floor flat on Goat Road, in Mitcham, just in time as an electrical fire in his fridge turned into an inferno. Days later, the 70-year-old was sitting inches away when a car crashed through a wall at his local pub, The Goat. As if this wasn't enough, the former builder and plumber,...
