Sky sources say UKIP's Nigel Farage, who is contesting Speaker John Bercow's seat in Buckingham, has been in a plane crash.

Mr Farage walked out of the light aircraft after the crash and has been taken to Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

The pilot had to be cut out of the wreckage and has been airlifted to a hospital in Coventry.

The plane was pulling a UKIP banner and it is believed it may have been caught up in the engine.

Northants Police told Sky News the plane crashed 10 minutes after take-off at 8am this morning at Hinton-in-the-Hedges airfield near Brackley in south Northamptonshire.

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