Sister risked life for family

A woman whose father and two brothers, one of them a rising rugby star, died in a slurry pit accident has said love for her family drove her to twice enter the fume-filled tank in a bid to rescue them.

Ulster Rugby player Nevin Spence, 22, his brother Graham, 30, and their father Noel, 58, died at the family farm near Hillsborough, Co Down, in September.

An inquest in Belfast heard the incident was triggered when Graham Spence entered the tank to rescue a collie dog that had fallen in.