Search for canoe tragedy father
The search has resumed for the body of a father missing after a canoe capsized in a sea loch in the Scottish Highlands on Sunday, killing his two young sons and a five-year-old girl.
Funeral held for brothers killed in canoe accident
A funeral was held for two young brothers who died in a canoeing accident which also claimed the life of their five-year-old friend.
Ewen Beaton, five, and his brother Jamie, two, were rescued by a helicopter after a six-man canoe they were in capsized on Loch Gairloch, in the Scottish Highlands, on Sunday August 26. They were airlifted to hospital where they died later that night.
The body of the boys' 32-year-old father, also named Ewen, is still missing. He is presumed drowned. Family friend Grace Mackay, five, was also pulled from the water after the accident but she too lost her fight for life last week.
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