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Warning at inquest into slurry deaths

The deaths of a father and his two sons in a slurry tank accident is a warning to the whole farming community, a coroner has ruled.

Ulster Rugby player Nevin Spence, 22, his elder brother Graham, 30, and their father Noel, 58, were knocked out by poisonous fumes before drowning in less than four feet of slurry near Hillsborough, County Down.

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