Police hold funerals for two officers killed in a crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough. The Independent reports that PC Matthew Blades dies alongside PC Tom Clough in the incident, and that hundreds of police officers line the streets during the commemoration for a colleague.
The Mirror and London Evening Standard describe the funerals occurring in close succession. Standard says the service for PC Tom Clough, 38, takes place in Redcar on Teesside, one day after the service for PC Matthew Blades, 37, in Hartlepool. Mirror similarly notes the quick timing and that family members remember PC Clough in tributes.
While the outlets focus on different aspects—street tributes and the scale of police attendance in one report, and personal remembrance and the order/location of services in the others—they all describe the same two deaths linked to the A66 crash and the two separate funeral services shortly afterward.
