Memorial game for rail death pair

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A charity football match is due to be held in memory of a mother and daughter who died on a railway line in Essex.

The body of Natasha Coombs, 17, from Dovercourt, was found near Manningtree station on 28 July last year. She had been hit accidentally by a train.

Her mother Joanne Coombs, 40, threw herself in front of a train at the same spot five weeks later.

The match, played at Brantham, Suffolk against Harwich will raise money for St Helena Hospice in Colchester.

Some of the money raised will also go towards a memorial bench for the mother and daughter.

Players in the match will include friends of Natasha Coombs, four of her cousins and two of her uncles.