The six people who died when the car they were travelling in crashed head-on with a lorry have been named.

The accident happened on the A607 near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, when a DAF articulated lorry collided with a Ford Mondeo.

The driver of the car was Richard Bolton, 23, from Beaumont Leys, Leicester. The back-seat passengers were Christopher James Worrad, 18, of no fixed abode; Emily Rose Curnock, 18, of Enderby, Leicester; Luke Sean Whittle, 19, of Enderby, Leicester and Carly Ann Arrindell, 18, of Glen Parva, Leicestershire.

The front seat passenger, a 19-year-old woman, has not been formally identified but she was named on one website as Teela Chamberlain who is from Leicester. One tribute read: "Teela babes, you are gunna be greatly miss(ed)."

In what police described as a "harrowing" operation, their bodies were removed from the wreckage on Thursday afternoon.

The driver of the lorry, a 48-year-old man from the Melton area, was treated at Leicester Royal Infirmary after complaining of chest pains.

The lorry driver was arrested after the crash, but was later released and told by police that he would face no further action.

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