Inquests into the deaths of 30 British tourists killed in a terror attack, including a Blackpool couple, get underway today.



70-year-old Denis Thwaites and his wife Elaine (69) were shot dead by a gunman on a beach in the resort of Sousse on 26 June 2015.

They were staying at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel.

The coroner, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith will hear evidence at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Over the next seven weeks, the circumstances of each individual death will be examined.

In total, 38 people were shot dead when a lone gunman, Seifeddine Rezgui, attacked the beach resort.

He killed holidaymakers as they were sunbathing, and in the Imperial Marhaba hotel where they were staying.

The family of each British citizen who was killed has been allocated a day when specific evidence will be heard about how they died.

Three months earlier, 22 people, mostly European tourists, were killed in a similar attack at the Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis.

The Foreign Office updated the travel advice on its website with details of the attack.

Officials and staff from the travel company TUI will give evidence this week, as well as representatives from the Metropolitan Police and Foreign Office.