An inquest is due to open this afternoon into the deaths of a man and woman whose car plunged off a cliff on the Isle of Wight.

The blue Renault Scenic went off the edge of the 100-metre Culver Down cliffs near Bembridge on Wednesday evening - the coastguard say at at least thorty miles an hour.

The bodies of a woman aged in her 40s and a man in his 50s were discovered on the beach.