Twins who died on Dover's cliffs may have been scattering their mother’s ashes at the time, it is believed.

The bodies of Muriel and Bernard Burgess, 59, from Elton in Cheshire, were found at the bottom of the cliffs at Langdon on New Years Day.

Ex-soldier Scott Enion was also found on the cliff foot that day in a separate tragedy.

It has now been reported that neither twin had ever married and both had lived with their parents all their lives.

They moved to the village of Elton in Cheshire after their mother died and had previously lived in Flintshire in North Wales after their father died in the 1980s.

Both their inquests are to open tomorrow at the Archbishop's Palace in Maidstone.

Police had earlier appealed for help in tracing their movements in the run-up to their deaths.

Det Sgt Stuart Ward said shortly after their tragedy: “We know they were in London on 22 December and we can place them in Dover on Boxing Day, but we are keen to establish if they were staying locally.

“We have already contacted local hotels but are now asking owners of guest houses, bed and breakfasts and pubs to contact us if they had a man and woman in their late 50s from Cheshire staying over the Christmas and New Year period.”

Mt Enion’s inquest opened at Maidstone today where it was confirmed that he had died from multiple injuries.

He was pronounced dead at 3.15pm on January 1 after his body was discovered by coastguards.

Senior coroner Patricia Harding adjourned the inquest until March 20.

Mr Enion, 45, from Waltham Gardens, Radcliffe, Manchester, was a Gulf War veteran in the1991 conflict and was in the army for eight years until 1996.

None of the three deaths have been treated as suspicious by police.