A PARLIAMENTARY secretary has died after experiencing an unwitnessed fall at her Oxfordshire home.

Barbara Cordingly, 82, died at her home address in Bird Close, Banbury after a suspected unwitnessed fall.

Her death was verified at 8.13am by a South Central Ambulance Service paramedic. It is unknown who had discovered the parliamentary secretary had fallen in her home.

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An inquest opening at Oxford Coroner’s Court on Thursday, July 11 heard that a post-mortem examination was carried out.

Following this, her medical cause of death has been provided as intracranial haemorrhage and traumatic head injury.

Area coroner Nicholas Graham has set a date for a full inquest to take place into Mrs Cordingly’s death at the same court on October 29 at 2pm.