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Inquest opens into deaths of Sheffield house fire victims

An inquest has opened into the deaths of a family who died in a house fire in Nether Edge in Sheffield in April 2014.

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Memorial tree planted on anniversary of fatal fire in Sheffield

The parents of three children killed in a fire in Sheffield exactly one year ago went back there today to help plant a tree outside their former home in their memory.

Prayers were said ahead of the ceremony at Wake Road in Nether Edge where two brothers, aged nine and seven, and their nine-week-old sister perished alongside their grandmother and aunt. The blaze is believed to have been caused by a faulty phone charger.

For many family members it was the first time they'd been back to the street since the tragedy.

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