Children share photo of terminally ill parents holding hands

The children of a terminally ill couple who died of cancer within days of each other have shared a photograph of their parents' last moments together.

The image shows Mike Bennet, 57, and wife Julie, 50, from Irby in Wirral, holding hands in a Merseyside hospice.

It was taken shortly before Mr Bennet died on Monday from a brain tumour.

Relatives and friends have launched a fundraising campaign to help the couple's three children, Oliver, 13, Hannah, 18 and Luke 21.

It raised thousands in the first 24 hours.

Friend Sue Wright said: "I told her the community would come together to help look after her kids - and she opened her eyes and smiled."

Ms Bennet, a primary school teacher from Sommerville School, died on Sunday at St John's Hospice.