Glenn Thomas, 49, a media relations co-ordinator for the World Health Organisation and former Granada journalist from Blackpool, was among those killed when a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane was downed over Ukraine.
The family of 49-year-old Glenn Thomas, killed in the Malaysian Airlines crash in Ukraine, are pleading for the chance to bring his body back home.
Glenn, a media relations co-ordinator for the World Health Organisation and former Granada journalist was one of 298 people killed in a suspected missile attack last week.
Today, there have been conflicting reports about what has happened to a train containing remains of many of those who died.
This from our Lancashire reporter Amy Welch:
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