Phil Spencer says parents ‘slipped away’ together as car crashed into river

Both of Phil Spencer’s parents died in a car accident on Friday (Jeff Spicer/PA)

TV presenter Phil Spencer has said his parents “would have held hands under the water and quietly slipped away”, after their car toppled off a bridge and into a river on their estate.

The Location, Location, Location star’s mother Anne and father David died on their farm in Littlebourne, Kent, while on their way to lunch on Friday.