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‘There’s a massive empty space where my son should be’

Rebecca Hinde lost her 8-year-old son, Worcestershire schoolboy Joshua Hillstead, to drowning in the River Arrow at Alvechurch in July 2024.

She tells Tom Edwards how she's on a mission to make sure no parents go through what she went through, with the launch of a charity in her son's honour.

The Joshua Hillstead Foundation fights for wider water safety awareness, and has joined with the Royal Life Saving Society UK with a visit to Westminster.

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