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Couple were celebrating anniversary before Bahamas tragedy
The husband of a woman who died as she tried to rescue her two sons when they were swept out to sea in the Bahamas said they had been celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary.
Leanne Gregory, from Stapleford in Nottinghamshire, had been on a family holiday with husband Nathan when he believes their boys were swept into the ocean by a riptide.
Although the children were rescued from the water on Tuesday, their mother was unable to be saved, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said.
Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Nathan, who is now back home with their sons, said the trip had been an early celebration for their anniversary in December.
He said both boys had been so excited and had been snorkelling in shallow water as they sorted out their towels and bags on the beach when the boys got into difficulties.
Both parents went into the sea and tried to save them as they were swept out by the current, he added, and the whole ordeal happened in less than 10 minutes.
Nathan said the loss of his 36-year-old "childhood sweetheart" was "unimaginable", but she was a "hero... in life and in death" as she helped to rescue the two boys.
"I've known her since infant school," he told the BBC. " We first got together when we were 14... so 22 years."
"There are no words I can use to describe Leanne, same as anyone she has ever known.
"She was the purest of people, the most generous kind and beautiful person who ever walked the earth.