A seven-year-old girl and her aunt have died in a devastating house fire near Middlesbrough, with police investigating the blaze as a murder and examining whether it could be linked to a deadly A66 crash that killed seven people days earlier.
Valentina Foster, seven, and her 34-year-old aunt Natalie McDonald died after the fire broke out at an end-of-terrace property on Birchington Avenue in Grangetown in the early hours of Wednesday. Emergency services were called to the property at around 5.23am after reports of a fire.
