A MEMORIAL garden in memory of four brothers will be unveiled this week featuring a plaque designed by their mother.

The garden at the boys' primary school will commemorate the lives of the Young brothers, who died alongside their father Keith Young nearly a year ago. They had suffered carbon monoxide poisoning.

The memorial will be officially opened on Friday afternoon at Handley Hill Primary School in Winsford, where the boys were pupils. And schoolchildren from Handley Hill will form a line of honour to their much-missed friends, Joshua, seven, Thomas, six, Callum, five, and Daniel, three.

It has been designed as a place for Handley Hill's young pupils to think and reflect. Taking centre stage will be the plaque designed by the boys' mother Samantha Tolley, alongside a large wooden sculpture of a tractor made by students of Mid-Cheshire College in Northwich.

Teaching assistant at the school, Linda George, asked the college to make the tractor

after she had studied there to gain her nursery nurse qualifications. She says she had spent a lot of time at Handley Hill's nursery with Daniel, and became good friends with all four youngsters when she moved into the main school.

Coming from a farming background, the boys spent most weekends on a farm and often enjoyed tractor rides. And, on the day of their funeral, a tractor made an unexpected appearance outside the church.

Linda said: 'On the day of the boys' funeral, just by coincidence, contractors were working in the grounds of the primary school next to the church and it just happened that, as everybody was coming out of the church, a tractor pulled up outside.

'I know the boys' family found this very comforting, because all the boys loved tractors and farming, so it was natural for the tractor theme to be the main focus of the memorial garden.'

The boys were found by police on March 27 last year, together with the body of their father. A petrol-driven lawn-mower was found inside the car, giving off carbon monoxide fumes.

The deaths shocked everyone in Mid Cheshire and the rest of the country - but staff and pupils of Handley Hall were determined the brothers would never be forgotten.