Farewell to Trogg's singer
The funeral has taken place today of Reg Presley, the lead singer of the 1960s band 'The Troggs'. He lived in Andover with his family.
The funeral has taken place today of Reg Presley, the lead singer of the 1960s band 'The Troggs'. He lived in Andover with his family.
The mother of two children murdered by their IRA bomb survivor father who then killed himself has released a photograph of "her angels".
An inquest into the deaths of a former army sergeant and his two children who he stabbed to death will be opened and adjourned today.
VIDEO: Tributes are being paid to two children whose bodies were found next to that of their father. It's thought 51-year-old Michael Pederson killed his son Ben, seven, and his six-year-old daughter Freya before killing himself on a bridleway near Andover. Martin Dowse reports.
Police investigating the deaths of three people in Andover can release the post mortem results of Michael Pedersen.
The post mortem, which was conducted on the afternoon of Monday, found Mr Pedersen died as a result of a number of stab wounds to the chest.
The post mortems of Ben and Freya Pedersen will take place later today.
Villagers near the Hampshire bridleway where the bodies of Michael Pedersen and his two children Ben and Freya were found have left a bunch of flowers and a message in tribute to them.
The paper reads "From the people of Newton Stacey, Barton Stacey, So very sorry, RIP."
Police investigating the deaths of three people in Andover can release the post mortem results of Michael Pedersen.
The post mortem examination, which took place yesterday afternoon, 1st October 2012, found Mr Pedersen died as a result of a number of stab wounds to the chest.
The post mortems of Ben and Freya Pedersen will take place later today.
Well-wishers have left floral tributes at Newton Stacey, near Andover in Hampshire where the bodies of Michael Pedersen and his two children were found.
Trooper Michael Pedersen at the Horse of the Year Show with Sefton, the Household Cavalry horse badly injured in the IRA bombing incident in Hyde Park, in 1982.
The family of two children whose bodies were found with their father's in a countryside lane have spoken of their devastation.
The bodies of Michael, 51, Ben, seven, and Freya Pedersen, six, were found next to a Saab 900SE convertible car in the tiny lane at Newton Stacey, near Andover, on Sunday.
The latest news from Newton Stacey near Andover, in Hampshire, where a man and two children were found dead by a walker yesterday.
Read the full storyA father who police believe killed his two young children before killing himself was a former army sergeant who survived a devastating IRA bomb blast.
The 1982 bomb attack hit as Michael Pedersen's unit was taking part in changing of the guard. Four soldiers and seven horses were killed in the explosion.
Mr Pedersen's horse Sefton was left seriously injured, but despite 34 wounds that required eight hours of surgery, the animal survived.
Sefton later became symbolic of the struggle against the IRA and won the Horse of the Year.
A former colleague who served in the Household Cavalry with Mr Pedersen has told reporters he saw him in July at an event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the bombing.
Alex Chalmers said: "He was in good spirits. He didn't mention anything at all, he was just good humoured."
Detective Superintendent Tony Harris, of Hampshire police, said that Surrey Police were considering referring the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) because of some previous contact with Mr Pedersen.
The bodies of a father and his two young children have been discovered beside a car on a bridleway near Andover. They were 51-year- old Michael Pedersen, who's from Chertsey in Surrey and Ben and Freya Pedersen, aged seven and six, from Middlesex.