DURING the search for a missing 88-year-old man police have found the body of a man in a shallow stream in the Kehelland area of Camborne.

Camborne Police were becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of an elderly man, known as William Pearce, who went missing on Wednesday.

Mr Pearce was last seen in the Tesco supermarket, Camborne by a neighbour who agreed to take Mr Pearce' shopping home for him.

At around 11.50 yesterday police discovered the body of a man in a shallow stream but it has not been confirmed that it is Mr Pearce yet and the death is not being treated as suspicious.