Clive Simmons was a journalist who reported on the plane crash in May 1994. He arrives in the village to see Lynn Whiteley, and tells her that Gavin Watson told him to see her. Lynn isn't interested in answering his questions. He asks Viv Windsor about the village getting a name change, but she throws him out of the post office. He later informs everyone at the Woolpack that the coroner had given his verdict at the plane crash inquest - accidental death.