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Mr Winn, 64, had recently retired, while Mrs Winn, 58, worked as a business manager at Welland Park Academy in Market Harborough.

Family Action runs a community centre off the Welland housing estate in Peterborough.

She said the aim was to involve hard-to-reach families in Welland, which is one of the most deprived areas of the city.

The headteachers of Kempsey, Welland and Hanley Swan Primaries, along with Hanley Castle High, all in Worcestershire, sent a letter to parents asking them to consider not getting their children a smartphone until they were in at least Year 9.

For generations, residents of Collyweston — a village in central England snuggled up against the River Welland — passed down stories of a grand Tudor palace, of royal processions through the valley below, of the mother of a king who had called it home.