Friends of a couple who were among four people killed in a cable car crash near Naples say they are "devastated" at their deaths.

Elaine and Graeme Winn, who lived in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, died alongside two others in Thursday's crash at Monte Faito, near Naples.

Local officials have said they believe the mountain cable car cabin plunged to the ground after one of the cables supporting it snapped.

Friends say the pair were keen motorcyclists, and on Sunday at a meeting outside the Black Horse in Foxton, fellow bikers and members of a club paid tribute.

Karina Mottley was one of many bikers who turned out to pay their respects to the Winns.

"They were the founders of the club, so we spent most weeks and weekends together, riding bikes and doing social things," she said.

"They were literally the best people I think we've ever met really.

"The biking community is such a close community – not just our club, other clubs across the East Midlands have been in contact, so it's just [had] a massive impact on all the clubs.

"Everybody knew of them, and everybody loved them."

Don Moore said the Winns were deeply involved in the local biking community.

"They were a fantastic couple," he said.

"They lived [for biking] – Graeme had recently retired, Elaine was cutting down her working days so she could do more biking and holidays, and they enjoyed all of that tremendously.

"Everybody's been absolutely devastated, there's been lots and lots of lots of tears, and everybody's been down, hence us having a little meeting today.

"It's such a tragedy to go in the way they have, on a holiday that they were dreaming of as well… you don't expect to have a dream holiday and not come back."

Sarah Hix said she worked with Elaine, who was a school business manager at Welland Park Academy in Market Harborough, for about 10 years.

"She threw herself into school life," she said.

"You never think it's going to be someone that you know.

"I only got back last night, so I've not really spoken to anybody, but two or three of my colleagues have spoken to me, and we're absolutely devastated."

Andrew Shrive said he met the Winns through their shared passion for biking, and had previously been on holiday with them.

He said Elaine had been a major influence on bringing more women into biking, and said Graeme's lifelong love had seen him buy "about 45-50 different bikes".

"They're the nicest couple that I've ever known," he said.

"I'd just come back from France touring on a bike, and I'd seen there had been an incident in Italy, and I heard that two Brits were killed, [and] I knew that Graeme and Elaine go over there, but you don't think that two people you know would be the two people involved in that serious accident.

"I just couldn't believe it."

Estelle Ambler said it will take time to come to terms with their loss.

"I couldn't believe it when I heard the news, it's very shocking," she said.

"We'd only seen them last week, and they were all excited for going away on their holiday.

"I've been following them on their travels on their social media – they'd only been in Italy a couple of days, and looked like they were having the most amazing time.

"To hear what has happened to them is shocking and extremely sad."

"I wanted to be a bus driver when I was younger. Then I wanted to own a bus cafe. It's always been in the back of my mind, this idea of living in a bus."

Lyndzi Hargrave, 38, moved into her double-decker bus in January and now plans to tour round festivals, so people can access the library inside it.

She purchased the bus on eBay in August 2023 and said the overall cost of the project – which doubles as an off-grid home – was more than £50,000, including buying the bus and adding solar panels.

Ms Hargrave, who grew up in Anstey, Leicestershire, said the bus had now passed its MOT, meaning she could tour it round the country, offering a free library and book swap service.

She said she did not know where her desire to live on a bus came from, "but it's just always been there".

Ms Hargrave said: "I've never really wanted kids or marriage or that traditional kind of life. And then I just thought, right, you need to focus on something."

At the end of 2022, she said she gave up drinking alcohol for a year "to see what would happen".

"That was the year I ended up getting the bus and everything just aligned for that to happen.

"I don't think if I wasn't drinking and I wasn't on this kind of journey, this spiritual journey, that I would have had the right mindset to complete such a huge task.

"I definitely feel like the more you kind of pursue your best interests, the more doors open in that area."

When asked what her favourite thing about living in a double-decker bus is, Ms Hargrave said: "It's having my own space, because I've always shared. I've always had a housemate.

"The favourite part is definitely feeling like this is my space that I can decorate how I want and all the rest of it.

"I've rescued furniture from free sites and from Facebook Marketplace and upcycled it all myself.

"I didn't want it looking all posh and brand new because that's not the vibe I was going for.

"I live in a library now, so that's surely got to be the best thing ever."

Ms Hargrave had the bus parked while she converted it, but is now looking for a semi-permanent base that she can return to between tours.

She said living in the bus had "humbled" her and taken her "back to basics".

"Every resource I bring on and every bit of wastage I take off," Ms Hargrave said.

"So it's made me realise about plastic packaging and whether I really need this item and it's just really given me a wake-up call and changed my perspective."

Ms Hargrave will begin touring the bus this month, with her first festival on 21 June.

She said: "I want to bring literacy to areas that no longer have libraries and also go to festivals and provide a bit of a community space for some people to connect.

"That's the point of the library and the books, to give people a reason to come along and then they can connect with people in the local community and with me and all the work that I do."

Ms Hargrave, who worked in specialist education for 15 years, also runs a podcast talking about ADHD and autism which aims to provide an information service for well-being and mental health.