AN INQUEST into the death of a ten-year-old boy from Newport will open today.

Jordan Widdall-Hughes, 10, from Potter Street, Pill, died on Tuesday evening, after falling from the back of a lorry on the Southern Distributor Road, Newport.

An inquest into his death will be formally opened today at the Gwent coroner's offices.

Tributes have poured in to the Argus after the death of the youngster described by his family as a "cheeky chappy".