THE Mid Cheshire community has rallied round to support work on the memorial garden to the Young brothers.

School garden maintenance company Sodoxho is carrying out the ground work. The company's Steve Medlicott said: 'We were more than happy to play our part by supplying the labour and the plants for the garden, which we also helped to design.'

And students at Mid-Cheshire College in Northwich are also getting involved. Handley Hill teaching assistant Linda George, who studied at the college, is co-ordinating the development. She said: 'It was through Mid-Cheshire College that I met the boys and their mum, Sam.

'I spent a lot of time in the nursery with Daniel and when I was taken on full-time by the school I became very good friends with all the boys.'

The college's joinery and woodwork department was asked if it would like to make a central, wooden sculpture for the garden, in the shape of a tractor in recognition of the boys' background of farming.

Steve said: 'On the day of the boys' funeral we 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, our tractor pulled up outside. I know the boys' family found this very comforting, because all the boys loved tractors.' The sculpture is based on the tractor which appeared outside the church. One of the volunteers working on the project is first year carpentry student Stephen Wilson, 17, from Winsford. He said: 'When our tutor asked for people to work on the tractor, I was one of the first to ask to do it.

'Coming from Winsford, I remember what happened to those boys, and everyone feels they want to do something to help their mum.'

The boys' mother, Samantha Tolley, who was living in Weaverham at the time of the tragedy, has designed a memorial plaque for the boys which will also feature a tractor and be placed in the garden at the Winsford school.