More remains found in burnt-out hotel

A second set of human remains were found tonight in the ruins of a burned-out seaside hotel in Britain, Devon and Cornwall Police…

A second set of human remains were found tonight in the ruins of a burned-out seaside hotel in Britain, Devon and Cornwall Police said.

Earlier, police named the man killed in the blaze which gutted the Penhallow Hotel in Cornwall at the weekend as 43-year-old Peter Hughes.

Mr Hughes, from Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire, died when fire broke out in the Cornish holiday resort of Newquay shortly after midnight on Saturday.

He is believed to have fallen from a window of the burning building.

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An inquest, which was opened and adjourned in Truro today, gave the interim cause of death the inhalation of smoke and toxic fumes.

Two other people were missing and suspected human remains were found during a search of the gutted building yesterday.

Police are treating the blaze as a major crime but refuse to speculate on its cause.

Many of the 86 guests evacuated from the hotel were elderly holidaymakers.