Two boys lose their family in M56 crash

Two youths lost their parents and nine-year-old brother in the horrific Manchester minibus crash, it was revealed today.

One of them, 15-year-old Richard McCoig-Lees, was badly injured in yesterday's accident. He is being treated in a Manchester hospital where his other brother Matthew, 19, is at his bedside.

Their parents, Martin and Denise, and brother Ryan were among the seven people killed when a minibus taking them to Manchester airport overturned on the M56.

Mr and Mrs McCoig-Lees had taken a break from their newsagents shop in Ledbury, Herefordshire, to go on holiday to Florida with Ryan and Richard when tragedy struck.

Today floral tributes piled up outside their shop as neighbours spoke of their shock.

Tony Coppin, the crossing warden at Ledbury Primary School, where Ryan was a pupil, said: "I can't believe he and his parents are dead. Ryan used to play football with my son Ben. They were in the same class. He was a lovely lad.

"The last time I saw the family was when I popped into the shop on Wednesday to pick up a magazine. They were all on a high because they were going to Florida. It is so awful."