A 42-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with the murders of his wife and two young children in Blackpool.

Patricia Jarvis, aged 36, and her two children John, 11, and eight-year-old Stuart were found at the Winslow Hotel last Thursday.

The family ran the hotel after moving to the UK from South Africa three months ago. A Lancashire Police spokesman said John Jarvis had been charged with three offences of murder.