A mother and daughter killed by suspected "gas poisoning" while on a boating holiday in the Lake District have been named by police.
Cumbria police confirmed that the two people who died at Windermere on Monday were Kelly Webster, 36, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lauren Thornton, both from Leyland in Lancashire.
The police said the deaths were not being treated as suspicious, adding: "It is suspected that the deaths were caused by some form of gas poisoning. Inquiries continue to be conducted by officers on behalf of the coroner."
A Cumbria police spokesman confirmed that Webster's partner, Matthew Eteson, 39, also from Leyland, was the third person on board the private vessel. He has been released from Royal Lancaster infirmary after treatment.
Emergency services were called to a jetty on Windermere's eastern shore at around 4pm on Monday following reports that a number of people on a private boat were suffering from serious breathing difficulties. The mother and daughter went into cardiac arrest and were treated at the scene before being airlifted to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary, where they later died.
Duncan Bannatyne, the businessman and Dragons' Den star, was in the area at the time and posted a picture on Twitter, saying: "Tragic accident over there I am afraid."
Around 50 people in the UK die each year in their homes because of carbon monoxide poisoning, which is created when fossil fuels such as gas and solid fuels such as charcoal and wood fail to combust fully owing to a lack of oxygen. Tragedies have also taken place at campsites where barbecues have been taken inside tents and enclosed spaces.
