Boy, 10, killed in crash is named

Alex Demetriou was travelling with his parents and younger siblings

A 10-year-old boy who was killed when two cars collided in Cornwall has been named as Alex Demetriou, from St Breward.

His 11-month-old brother suffered a fractured skull in the crash on the A30 near Newquay on Sunday.

The brothers were in a Citroen with their parents, five-year-old sister and two-year-old brother when it was in collision with a BMW.

Their parish priest said the community was in "absolute total shock".

The 11-month-old boy is being treated in hospital for a fractured skull.

His five-year-old sister is also still in hospital after undergoing surgery for an arm injury.

But both parents and their two-year-old son have been discharged.

When the news broke I was due to help sing Christmas songs at the playgroup. I didn't have the heart to do it and nobody else did either Canon Sherry Bryan, parish priest

The BMW's occupants - a man and a woman from Perranporth both aged 34, a four-year-old girl and a baby aged five months - suffered minor injuries.

Canon Sherry Bryan, the St Breward parish priest, said the reaction had been one of "absolute total shock and a village in mourning".

She said: "When the news broke I was due to help sing Christmas songs at the playgroup.

"I didn't have the heart to do it and nobody else did either.

"Instead, we came up to the church, lit a candle by the nativity scene and had prayers and a time of silence."

Police have appealed for information about the fatal collision.