Tributes paid to mother who died in house fire where four children survived

Emergency crews were unable to save Kate Mulcahy while her children escaped from a fire at her home in Manchester

Tributes have been paid to a 37-year-old woman who died in a house fire in Greater Manchester where her four children survived.

Kate Mulcahy was found dead inside her home in Middleton after a fire broke out early on Sunday morning. It is understood she had two sons - one-year-old twins - and two daughters, and that a number of the children were in the house and managed to escape the blaze.