Police are appealing for information about a pair of twins who were found at the bottom of the White Cliffs of Dover on New Year's Day.

The brother and sister, 59, who have not been formally identified yet, are understood to have been from the Elton area of Cheshire.

Detectives believe they were in London on December 22 before heading to Dover, Kent.

Tragedies: Police are trying to identify three people who jumped to their deaths from cliffs near Dover on New Year's Day (pictured)

Probe: The bodies of the man and the woman were discovered near an engineering compound under the cliffs (pictured)

Their deaths are not being treated as suspicious but police are still trying to determine why they met their deaths at the cliffs.

Detective Sergeant Stuart Ward of Kent Police said: 'We know they were in London on December 22 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.'

Officers would also like to hear from anyone who saw the pair, who were wearing dark-coloured wet weather clothing, at the top of the cliffs in the period between Boxing Day and New Year's Day.

Officers who were alerted to concern for the welfare of a man at Langdon Cliffs found a body at the base of the cliffs on Sunday afternoon (stock image)

Police officers were first called out over concern for a man seen at 400ft high cliffs along Langdon Bay and later found a body at the base of the cliffs on Sunday afternoon

Pictured: Emergency services gather close to the scene of where two of the bodies were found along the cliffs of Dover

The bodies were found at Langdon Bay, a short distance east of the town of Dover

The bodies of the twins were found close to an engineering compound on the harbour arm of the Port of Dover, directly under the Langdon Cliffs.

They were found half a mile away from where a man aged 45 was found dead on a ledge of the cliffs.

Emergency services had been initially called out following reports for the concern of the welfare of a man aged 45.

They went to the Langdon Bay area but the man was found dead on a ledge close to the bottom of the 400ft cliffs.

His body was winched to the top by helicopter.

The man has now been formally identified as a 45-year-old from Manchester but his name has not yet been released by police.

His next of kin have been informed and his death is not being treated as suspicious.