Campaign aims to support children who've lost a sibling through stillbirth

A couple from Chilwell in Nottinghamshire who set up a charity to help parents of stillborn babies are beginning a month-long campaign to support other family members as well.

Michelle and Richard Daniels lost their own baby daughter Emily who was stillborn in 2013. They went on to found the charity Forever Stars to help other families in the same situation.

Already they have raised more than £200,000 to create two bereavement suites at the Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital in Nottingham. The units provide somewhere where grieving couples can be away from other parents on the maternity ward.

Now, throughout October, Mr and Mrs Daniels are fundraising to pay for a specialist counsellor in Nottingham to support the siblings of stillborn babies.

They say, when Emily died, they had to go to Newark to get support for their son Finlay who's now eight. He was looking forward to having a baby brother or sister and had been building up to the birth, so it was very hard, they added, to explain to him what had happened.

To kickstart the fundraising effort, the operators of Nottingham's tram network, NET, have offered Forever Stars a snacks kiosk at the Toton Lane park and ride site. It will open tomorrow morning and all profits will go to the charity.

The charity is also campaigning to raise awareness of the needs of parents of stillborn infants and to encourage people not to shy away from talking to grieving couples - they're promoting the campaign on social media using the tag #talkaboutthem.

Mr and Mrs Daniels have already had their charity work recognised by having a tram named after them.