A man arrested in connection with one of Britain’s worst ever hotel fires which claimed the lives of three Staffordshire people has been re-bailed until September.

The fire at the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay, Cornwall, killed Cheslyn Hay mother and son Peter Hughes, aged 43, head of physics at Weston Road High School in Stafford, and his mother Monica, 86.

The third victim was Joan Harper, aged 80, from Stoke-on-Trent.

A police spokesman said the 44-year-old man answered his bail yesterday and will return to Newquay police on September 2.

The three other people arrested in connection with the blaze, a 21-year-old man, a 42-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman, were previously re-bailed to the same date.