Heartbreaking scene as charity worker returns to reservoir where her husband, mother and foster children drowned after car ran off the road

With her head bowed in sorrow, the foster mother who lost her family in a horrific car crash lays a bouquet in tribute.
Charity worker Denise Griffith, 55, made a tearful return to the scene yesterday to deliver the flowers, including a single white rose, near the edge of the reservoir that claimed their lives.
Accompanied by other relatives, she broke down as she left a handwritten message in memory of husband Emyr, 66, foster sons Peter Briscome and Liam Govier, both 14, and mother Phyllis Hooper, 84.
The tribute from the regular churchgoer read: ‘Safe in His arms. You are all in our thoughts and prayers. Love Andrew, Denise, Lloyd and Debs.’

Grief: Denise Griffiths, accompanied by a well-wisher, lays a bouquet of flowers at the scene of the crach that killed her husband Emyr and 14-year-old foster children Peter Brisocome and Liam Govier and mother Phyllis Hooper

Emotion: Ms Griffith was accompanied by relatives and left flower with a note that read ‘Safe in His arms. You are all in our thoughts and prayers. Love Andrew, Denise, Lloyd and Debs.’

Andrew and Lloyd are believed to be her brothers, Andrew and Lloyd Hooper, aged 59 and 44 respectively.
She stood for several minutes at the edge of the Llyn Clywedog reservoir near Llanidloes in Powys, mid-Wales, in respectful silence. She was then escorted back to a waiting car by her companions.
Police, meanwhile, interviewed her for the first time yesterday. Mrs Griffith, who escaped with minor injuries, had been too upset to speak formally following Wednesday’s incident.
She had been at the wheel of the Peugeot 807 when it was apparently ‘clipped’ by another car and careered off a picturesque route into the water during the family’s Easter holiday.

Tragedy: Mrs Griffith, left, returned to the scene to watch as husband Emyr, 66, mother Phyllis Hooper, 84, right, and foster sons Peter Briscome and Liam Govier, both 14, were plucked dead from the wreckage

Grim search: Dyfed Powys Police officers at the scene of the tragic accident at Bwlch y Gle Dam, Clywedog reservoir near Llanidloes, Powys mid Wales

It is believed she decided to stay in the Llanidloes area after being checked over at a nearby hospital following the crash.
So she has yet to return to her home almost 100 miles away  in Pontypridd in the South  Wales valleys.
Friends of the Griffiths yesterday paid tributes to the couple’s ‘excellent’ foster parenting skills. And Bethany Baptist Church deacon Andrew Phipps said: ‘We will be there for Denise.’
He said the congregation was ‘stunned’, adding: ‘We will be praying for them and doing what we can to help.’
A neighbour, John Davies, said: ‘This is so tragic. They were such a nice family, people who would do anything for you. The mother (Mrs Hooper) was really nice as well.  My wife died about two years ago and she would do anything to help out. She was very generous.’

Perilous: Despite being regarded as a local beauty spot, the road itself has a reputation for being potentially treacherous

Search: Rescuers in a boat near the scene where a car plunged into the reservoir

John Ivor James, 61, from Aberystwyth, who was a friend of Mr Griffith, said the chapel minister’s son had worked as an electricity meter reader and a postman.
‘Emyr was an outstanding  friend,’ said Mr James. ‘He was  a very considerate man, and it  was through him that I met my wife, Janet.
‘He was a very good squash, bowls and snooker player, and a reasonably good footballer.
‘He was deaf though, but that didn’t stop him and he was a very good lip reader.’
Mimi Lloyd, from Aberystwyth, who was one of the Griffiths’s first foster children, said: ‘Emyr was an absolutely lovely man. He did not have a bad word to say about anybody. I shall miss him greatly.’
A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
Gordon Dyche was released  on bail.
From the Llanidloes area, he was driving a Ford Mondeo which is being examined by police.

Grim scene: Rescue workers at the reservoir appear to be carrying something from the water's edge to waiting ambulances

Tragedy: The Griffith family Peugeot is removed from the reservoir

Recovered: A Ford Mondeo thought to have been involved in the crash is taken away from the scene of the accident

Heartbreaking scene as charity worker returns to reservoir where her husband, mother and foster children drowned after car ran off the road

With her head bowed in sorrow, the foster mother who lost her family in a horrific car crash lays a bouquet in tribute.
Charity worker Denise Griffith, 55, made a tearful return to the scene yesterday to deliver the flowers, including a single white rose, near the edge of the reservoir that claimed their lives.
Accompanied by other relatives, she broke down as she left a handwritten message in memory of husband Emyr, 66, foster sons Peter Briscome and Liam Govier, both 14, and mother Phyllis Hooper, 84.
The tribute from the regular churchgoer read: ‘Safe in His arms. You are all in our thoughts and prayers. Love Andrew, Denise, Lloyd and Debs.’

Grief: Denise Griffiths, accompanied by a well-wisher, lays a bouquet of flowers at the scene of the crach that killed her husband Emyr and 14-year-old foster children Peter Brisocome and Liam Govier and mother Phyllis Hooper

Emotion: Ms Griffith was accompanied by relatives and left flower with a note that read ‘Safe in His arms. You are all in our thoughts and prayers. Love Andrew, Denise, Lloyd and Debs.’

Andrew and Lloyd are believed to be her brothers, Andrew and Lloyd Hooper, aged 59 and 44 respectively.
She stood for several minutes at the edge of the Llyn Clywedog reservoir near Llanidloes in Powys, mid-Wales, in respectful silence. She was then escorted back to a waiting car by her companions.
Police, meanwhile, interviewed her for the first time yesterday. Mrs Griffith, who escaped with minor injuries, had been too upset to speak formally following Wednesday’s incident.
She had been at the wheel of the Peugeot 807 when it was apparently ‘clipped’ by another car and careered off a picturesque route into the water during the family’s Easter holiday.

Tragedy: Mrs Griffith, left, returned to the scene to watch as husband Emyr, 66, mother Phyllis Hooper, 84, right, and foster sons Peter Briscome and Liam Govier, both 14, were plucked dead from the wreckage

Grim search: Dyfed Powys Police officers at the scene of the tragic accident at Bwlch y Gle Dam, Clywedog reservoir near Llanidloes, Powys mid Wales

It is believed she decided to stay in the Llanidloes area after being checked over at a nearby hospital following the crash.
So she has yet to return to her home almost 100 miles away  in Pontypridd in the South  Wales valleys.
Friends of the Griffiths yesterday paid tributes to the couple’s ‘excellent’ foster parenting skills. And Bethany Baptist Church deacon Andrew Phipps said: ‘We will be there for Denise.’
He said the congregation was ‘stunned’, adding: ‘We will be praying for them and doing what we can to help.’
A neighbour, John Davies, said: ‘This is so tragic. They were such a nice family, people who would do anything for you. The mother (Mrs Hooper) was really nice as well.  My wife died about two years ago and she would do anything to help out. She was very generous.’

Perilous: Despite being regarded as a local beauty spot, the road itself has a reputation for being potentially treacherous

Search: Rescuers in a boat near the scene where a car plunged into the reservoir

John Ivor James, 61, from Aberystwyth, who was a friend of Mr Griffith, said the chapel minister’s son had worked as an electricity meter reader and a postman.
‘Emyr was an outstanding  friend,’ said Mr James. ‘He was  a very considerate man, and it  was through him that I met my wife, Janet.
‘He was a very good squash, bowls and snooker player, and a reasonably good footballer.
‘He was deaf though, but that didn’t stop him and he was a very good lip reader.’
Mimi Lloyd, from Aberystwyth, who was one of the Griffiths’s first foster children, said: ‘Emyr was an absolutely lovely man. He did not have a bad word to say about anybody. I shall miss him greatly.’
A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
Gordon Dyche was released  on bail.
From the Llanidloes area, he was driving a Ford Mondeo which is being examined by police.

Grim scene: Rescue workers at the reservoir appear to be carrying something from the water's edge to waiting ambulances

Tragedy: The Griffith family Peugeot is removed from the reservoir

Recovered: A Ford Mondeo thought to have been involved in the crash is taken away from the scene of the accident

The battle of Tesco: How protest against 18th store in city turned into a seven-hour riot

• 160 officers fight running battles in street with 300 protesters
• Rioters attack controversial Tesco shop with firebombs and baseball bats
• Police pelted with cobblestones dug up from road

Hundreds of protesters have stormed a controversial Tesco store only days after it opened, causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage and injuring eight police officers.
It came after police had raided a nearby squat at the centre of a campaign against the supermarket giant.
They arrested four people suspected of plotting a firebomb attack on the new shop, provoking more than seven hours of violent unrest as more than 300 protesters spilled on to the streets.

Watch the videos below - Warning: Contains explicit language

In riot gear: Holding shields and batons, police line up behind their vans on Stokes Croft, Bristol, as trouble flares after the raid on the squat

Enlarge  

Overkill: The trouble erupted after a police raid on a house to arrest just four squatters, and escalated into a full-scale riot

On fire: Riot police stand guard as debris behind them blazes away with petrol bombs being thrown during the disturbance

Several officers were injured in clashes  with gangs of masked youths who were armed with bottles, bricks and other makeshift weapons.
One eyewitness described the riot, in which police vehicles were looted and burning barricades erected at street junctions, as ‘pure and utter carnage’.
At the centre of the unrest was a new Tesco Express in the Stokes Croft area of central Bristol. The shop became the 18th branch in the city when it opened its doors last Friday in the face of local opposition.
Rioters hurled chairs and bricks and tried to set fire to the glass-fronted store while two security guards were trapped inside. A hoard of petrol bombs were earlier recovered from a notorious squat opposite known locally as ‘Telepathic Heights’. The building, which is covered from top to bottom in brightly coloured murals, has ‘No Tesco in Stokes Croft’ painted across one wall.
Police organised a lightning raid hours after residents saw suspected petrol bombs being carried into the building.
Dozens of officers in full riot  gear swooped on the three-storey property shortly after 9pm on Thursday.

Violence: Eight police officers as well as protesters were injured during the riot which began after 160 police officers swooped on a house to arrest just four squatters

Smashed: Crowds stand amid shattered bottles. Officers were showered in bottles, stones and other missiles as rioters dug up cobbles from the road

Hundreds of people then descended on the area and police called in reinforcements, including colleagues from  surrounding forces.

Clean up: CSI officers sift for evidence among the rubble of the riot

Lines of officers were showered in bottles, stones and other missiles as rioters dug up cobbles from the road. Bottle banks and wheelie bins were turned over and set on fire.
Eight officers were taken to hospital with injuries including broken teeth as well as head and neck injuries. Several protesters were also injured.
Student Madeleine Waugh, 21, said: ‘Riot police were trying to push people out of the way but a lot of people got caught in the cross fire.
‘I saw a lot of people who were bleeding and who had been hit with police truncheons in the chaos.’
Amateur film-maker Alice von Kohler, 25, said police were pushing crowds of people up and down the roads in the area. ‘It was scary, people were really angry,’ she said. ‘They surged towards Tesco and started smashing it up. As they did so, people were cheering, they  were happy. The police came back and were really aggressive, they were just arresting people for being there.
‘People were shouting at police, “These are our streets, what  are you doing, go home” and  throwing glass bottles and missiles at officers.’
Primary school teacher Nick Jones, 27, who lives opposite the store and was forced to barricade himself inside his home during the riot, said the shop was ‘fiercely opposed’. He said: ‘Stokes Croft has its own unique identity and few corporate stores. People don’t feel that Tesco fits into that at all.’

Carnage: The police operation sparked unrest with hundreds of protesters taking to the streets culminating in the petrol bombing of a branch of Tesco Metro

Destruction: Broken windows and graffiti at the Tesco store the morning after the riot

Aftermath: The riot was brought under control at around 4am. Three people were arrested on suspicion of public order offences and another person on suspicion of threats to cause criminal damage with intent to endanger life

The Tesco Express was opened last Friday after months of protests, including a sit-in by protesters who encased their arms in concrete.
Central Bristol was already home to 17 branches of Tesco, including 14 within a two-mile radius of the site of the newest store.
The protests formed part of  a nationwide movement against the expansion of the supermarket chain.
Tesco has more than 1,500 stores across the country, controls more than 30 per cent of the national grocery market and announced record profits of £3.8billion this week. Stokes Croft is close to the St Paul’s area, where some of  Britain’s first inner-city riots exploded in 1980.
Yesterday Assistant Chief  Constable Rod Hansen of Avon and Somerset Police defended the police operation and said officers had to take action.
He said the seized petrol bombs highlighted the ‘seriousness of the situation’ and added that public safety was ‘paramount’.
A Tesco spokesman said: ‘Thankfully none of our staff and  customers was harmed. Tesco will be supporting the police in any way we can.’

The battle of Tesco: How protest against 18th store in city turned into a seven-hour riot

• 160 officers fight running battles in street with 300 protesters
• Rioters attack controversial Tesco shop with firebombs and baseball bats
• Police pelted with cobblestones dug up from road

Hundreds of protesters have stormed a controversial Tesco store only days after it opened, causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage and injuring eight police officers.
It came after police had raided a nearby squat at the centre of a campaign against the supermarket giant.
They arrested four people suspected of plotting a firebomb attack on the new shop, provoking more than seven hours of violent unrest as more than 300 protesters spilled on to the streets.

Watch the videos below - Warning: Contains explicit language

In riot gear: Holding shields and batons, police line up behind their vans on Stokes Croft, Bristol, as trouble flares after the raid on the squat

Enlarge  

Overkill: The trouble erupted after a police raid on a house to arrest just four squatters, and escalated into a full-scale riot

On fire: Riot police stand guard as debris behind them blazes away with petrol bombs being thrown during the disturbance

Several officers were injured in clashes  with gangs of masked youths who were armed with bottles, bricks and other makeshift weapons.
One eyewitness described the riot, in which police vehicles were looted and burning barricades erected at street junctions, as ‘pure and utter carnage’.
At the centre of the unrest was a new Tesco Express in the Stokes Croft area of central Bristol. The shop became the 18th branch in the city when it opened its doors last Friday in the face of local opposition.
Rioters hurled chairs and bricks and tried to set fire to the glass-fronted store while two security guards were trapped inside. A hoard of petrol bombs were earlier recovered from a notorious squat opposite known locally as ‘Telepathic Heights’. The building, which is covered from top to bottom in brightly coloured murals, has ‘No Tesco in Stokes Croft’ painted across one wall.
Police organised a lightning raid hours after residents saw suspected petrol bombs being carried into the building.
Dozens of officers in full riot  gear swooped on the three-storey property shortly after 9pm on Thursday.

Violence: Eight police officers as well as protesters were injured during the riot which began after 160 police officers swooped on a house to arrest just four squatters

Smashed: Crowds stand amid shattered bottles. Officers were showered in bottles, stones and other missiles as rioters dug up cobbles from the road

Hundreds of people then descended on the area and police called in reinforcements, including colleagues from  surrounding forces.

Clean up: CSI officers sift for evidence among the rubble of the riot

Lines of officers were showered in bottles, stones and other missiles as rioters dug up cobbles from the road. Bottle banks and wheelie bins were turned over and set on fire.
Eight officers were taken to hospital with injuries including broken teeth as well as head and neck injuries. Several protesters were also injured.
Student Madeleine Waugh, 21, said: ‘Riot police were trying to push people out of the way but a lot of people got caught in the cross fire.
‘I saw a lot of people who were bleeding and who had been hit with police truncheons in the chaos.’
Amateur film-maker Alice von Kohler, 25, said police were pushing crowds of people up and down the roads in the area. ‘It was scary, people were really angry,’ she said. ‘They surged towards Tesco and started smashing it up. As they did so, people were cheering, they  were happy. The police came back and were really aggressive, they were just arresting people for being there.
‘People were shouting at police, “These are our streets, what  are you doing, go home” and  throwing glass bottles and missiles at officers.’
Primary school teacher Nick Jones, 27, who lives opposite the store and was forced to barricade himself inside his home during the riot, said the shop was ‘fiercely opposed’. He said: ‘Stokes Croft has its own unique identity and few corporate stores. People don’t feel that Tesco fits into that at all.’

Carnage: The police operation sparked unrest with hundreds of protesters taking to the streets culminating in the petrol bombing of a branch of Tesco Metro

Destruction: Broken windows and graffiti at the Tesco store the morning after the riot

Aftermath: The riot was brought under control at around 4am. Three people were arrested on suspicion of public order offences and another person on suspicion of threats to cause criminal damage with intent to endanger life

The Tesco Express was opened last Friday after months of protests, including a sit-in by protesters who encased their arms in concrete.
Central Bristol was already home to 17 branches of Tesco, including 14 within a two-mile radius of the site of the newest store.
The protests formed part of  a nationwide movement against the expansion of the supermarket chain.
Tesco has more than 1,500 stores across the country, controls more than 30 per cent of the national grocery market and announced record profits of £3.8billion this week. Stokes Croft is close to the St Paul’s area, where some of  Britain’s first inner-city riots exploded in 1980.
Yesterday Assistant Chief  Constable Rod Hansen of Avon and Somerset Police defended the police operation and said officers had to take action.
He said the seized petrol bombs highlighted the ‘seriousness of the situation’ and added that public safety was ‘paramount’.
A Tesco spokesman said: ‘Thankfully none of our staff and  customers was harmed. Tesco will be supporting the police in any way we can.’

Beyonce shows off her slender figure during balcony photoshoot... as peeping Tom enjoys the view from above in his bathrobe

Imagine walking out on to your hotel balcony and there, beneath your eys, stood one of the most famous women on the planet.
That's what happened to one lucky guest at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, who was in prime position to whatch RnB megastar Beyonce take part in a photoshoot in the room below him.
The portly gentleman, clad in a white dressing gown, feasted his eyes as the 29-year-old singer flaunted her killer curves in a sheer black dress.
If he had wanted a room with a view, he certainly got one.

Vision: Beyonce appears on the balcony at the Ritz Hotel in Paris yesterday where she was taking part in a photoshoot for Harper's Bazaar magazine

Beyonce looked stunning in her ensemble as she turned on the glamour for the Harper's Bazaar shoot.
Her see-through black dress revealed her black underwear underneath, while her top half was decorated with a bloom of poppy-like red ruffles.
The former Destiny's Child star was also looking noticeably slimmer, having apparently shed weight in recent months.
Her slimline look was accentuated by her hairstyle, which was scraped back tightly against her head.

Room with a view: A fellow hotel guest, clad in his dressing gown, appeared to be enjoying the view from above as he peered down from above

Looking good: Beyonce showed off her shrinking figure in a sheer black dress with her top half covered in poppy-like red ruffles

The singer is currently in Paris to record a new song with Kanye West and possibly also start to prep the video for the tune, according to People.
She has been joined by her husband Jay-Z after the couple flew in last week by private jet.
During their time in the city they have enjoyed several romantic meals together with Beyonce also paying a visit to Disneyland Paris.
The pair reportedly are staying at an ultra-exclusive hotel in the French capital that costs a staggering $20,000 a night.

Big smile: Beyonce blows a kiss as her bodyguard watches on protectively

Confident: In another pose the RnB megastar punches the air with her fist

The two-storey penthouse suite at the Hotel Le Meurice overlooks the Tuiuleries Gardens.
It is decorated in a nineteenth-century style, with private elevator access, sitting room, walk-in closet and bedroom with a bathroom in exquisite Italian marble. 

There is also a pantry and a kitchen for a butler and personal chef and a glass enclosed dining room with a gigantic private open air terrace.
Yesterday's photoshoot was held at the famous Ritz hotel, where Princess Diana dined with Dodi Fayed hours before they were tragically killed in a car crash in the French capital.

Changing shapes: Beyonce looks like she has shed the pounds in recent months, pictured far left looking super slim in Paris last week, looking fuller figured, centre, in New York in November and, right, on stage in July 2009