Beaminster Tunnel reopens

A road tunnel has finally re-opened after two people from Somerset died in a landslide at its entrance. Michael Rolfe was driving through the tunnel with his friend Rosemary Snell when their car was buried under hundreds of tonnes of mud. Their bodies were discovered a week later.

That was over a year ago, and since then, the land above the tunnel near Beaminster in Dorset has been stabilised at a cost of more than £2 million. Our Dorset correspondent Duncan Sleightholme reports.

Beaminster Tunnel in Dorset has reopened to traffic.

It had been closed for more than a year after two pensioners from Somerset were crushed and killed in their car there following a landslip.

Work included stabilising the ground by using a thousand 12 metre long nails.

Our Correspondent Duncan Sleightholme reports: