Sparks from coal fire blamed for blaze that claimed an entire family

SPARKS from a banked-up coal fire may have caused a blaze in which a South Yorkshire family of four died, an inquest heard yesterday..

Mark Colley, 29, his wife Michelle, 25, and their son Lewis, three, were pronounced dead at the scene of the blaze and daughter Sophie, five, died two days later in hospital.

Mrs Colley was due to give birth to the couple's third child, which they had already named Ashton, two days later. Doctors delivered the baby by Caesarean section but he did not survive.