A couple who were trapped when a huge landslide partially crushed their holiday hotel plan to return to their Bradford home tomorrow.

Philip Nelson, on holiday with his wife, was trapped under a table after the Shanklin Beach Hotel on the Isle of Wight was struck by 15,000 tonnes of rock and rubble. He had to remove his artificial leg to free himself and was one of four people to be taken to hospital.

The owners of a Bradford company who took 14 pensioners to the island are also set to return after enduring the catastrophe, reported in later editions of yesterday's Telegraph & Argus.

Vera Roper and her husband Stan, who run Roper Coaches based in Duckworth Lane, Bradford, set off with the pensioners on a week's holiday to the hotel last Sunday.

Speaking from the Channel View Hotel, where she was evacuated after the cliff slide, she said: "We heard a loud noise, there was a crunch, the fire alarm went off and there was a rumble.

"The back of the room was pushed in and through the windows you could see the trees and the cars in the car park were crushed - one car was sat up on its end. The hotel staff were calm but none of us could quite believe what had happened."

George and Pat Pickles, neighbours of Mr and Mrs Nelson, heard the shocking news from another neighbour.

Mr Pickles, 60, had taken the couple to the bus station to begin the holiday.

He said: "They had just got back from Australia and this was a mystery week. They only found out they were going to the Isle of Wight the weekend before.''