A six-year-old boy is fighting for his life in England after his parents were killed in a plane crash.

The boy was pulled alive from the wreckage of the light aircraft after it came down in woodland near an airfield in Hampshire.

Lewis and Sally Tonkinson, of Alcester, Warwickshire, both died after the crash but their son is being treated for life-threatening injuries in Southampton General Hospital.

Mr Tonkinson was the founder of Pinnacle Marketing and had celebrated his 50th birthday on New Year's Day.

The aircraft in which the family was travelling crashed in woodland next to Popham Airfield, in Hampshire, on Saturday afternoon shortly after taking off from Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.

Air investigators are attempting to establish what caused the plane to crash and they have appealed to anyone who saw the aircraft beforehand to contact them.

A Hampshire Police spokesman said: "Police remain at the scene whilst the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) carries out an assessment."