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'I don't want him to just be remembered as the boy who died in the river.'

The mum of Kieran Wharton, who died after being pulled from the River Soar in Barrow, has been sharing her son's story for the first time.

Kieran, who was thirteen years old - was one of a group of young people who went into the water. It prompted a huge police operation to rescue the teenagers from the River.

His mum Kaleigh and Dad Ben told Ady about their son.

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