Search goes on at hotel fire site

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Police in Cornwall are continuing to search the site of a hotel destroyed by fire for potential evidence and any more human remains.

Three people are now known to have died in the fire at the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay in the early hours of Saturday.

Peter Hughes, 43, from Cheslyn Hay, Staffs, died while trying to rescue his 86-year-old mother, Monica Hughes, who is missing presumed dead.

Two sets of human remains have now been found by search teams.

Major crime

A team of 20 people has been searching through the rubble of the hotel, a job which could take more than two weeks to complete.

Cornwall coroner Emma Carlyon ruled on Wednesday that Mr Hughes, who fell from a window in the burning building, died from inhaling smoke and toxic fumes.

More than 80 people escaped from the building on the night of the fire.

Four injured people who were taken to hospital are said to be improving.

Police said the fire is being treated as a major crime until "evidence to the contrary".