One man, a serving police officer, escaped the fire but his wife and their two children died in the blaze.

One man, a serving police officer, escaped the fire but his wife and their two children died in the blaze.

Emergency services were called to the 'well-established' fire at a property on Brimscombe Hill, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, at about 3am.

Fionnghuala Shearman, known to friends as Nu, perished alongside daughter Eve, seven, and son Ohner, four, as flames swept through their home on Brimscombe Hill, near Stroud.