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Article: Two more arrested in investigation into hotel fire ; Detectives have arrested two people in connection with the fatal Penhallow Hotel fire in Cornwall which claimed three lives.

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May 20, 2008
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Detectives have arrested two people in connection with the fatal Penhallow Hotel fire in Cornwall which claimed three lives.

Police confirmed two men were taken into custody yesterday morning to be questioned about the blaze in Newquay last August.

Joan Harper, 80, from Stoke-on-Trent, Peter Hughes, 43, and his mother Monica, 86, both from Staffordshire, died in the blaze.

It brings the total number of arrests in the investigation to six and follows an upsurge in police activity in the last few weeks.

Detective Chief Inspector Darren Lockley is leading the investigation, which the police are still treating as a murder inquiry.

However, police have refused to give any information about the ...

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