Inquests have been opened into the deaths of a couple whose car was buried by a landslide in Dorset.

A coroner's heard that 67 year old Rosemary Snell's cause of death was chest compression due to trapping - while her partner Michael Rolfe, 72, died from a fracture of the spine ... and both would have been killed almost instantly.

They weren't found until 9 days after the landslip at Beaminster Tunnel near Dorchester - but the police watchdog says it's happy with the way the county's force handled the case.