POLICE have recovered a body from a York river.

Officers searching for missing man Dean Findlay, 35, of Sutton -on-the-Forest, near York, recovered a male body from the Foss - the second to be found in the river in less than a week.

Mr Findlay was last seen at about 8.45pm on Saturday, April 13, near The Victoria Vaults pub, in Nunnery Lane, in York.

Divers from the marine section of Northumbria Police spent all day on Sunday searching a stretch of the river.

Police returned to the Foss yesterday, this time using a motorised dinghy to help them in their hunt.

Ron Johnson, spokesman for North Yorkshire Police, said: "Police searching for the missing man Dean Findlay, who disappeared on Friday April 13, have found a man's body in the River Foss in the city."

The body was discovered by the police underwater search unit at 12.15pm in a stretch of river that passes the Clifford's Tower car park in the city centre .

It has not yet been identified.

They had also been combing the city for any traces of Mr Findlay, who is believed to have visited Fibber's bar, in Stonebow, in York, later in the evening of April 13.

The Press reported on Friday how police were concerned for the welfare of Mr Findlay, who had never gone missing before.

A North Yorkshire Police spokeswoman told The Press it was "very out of character" for Mr Findlay to have disappeared.

The Press also reported on Saturday how police had identified the body of a man pulled from the River Foss last Wednesday.

Police named him as David John James Clarke, 43, of Bishophill, York.

Mr Clarke was found dead in the river near the village of Towthorpe, on the outskirts of York.

He was dragged from the river at about 12.30pm, after a member of the public spotted the body and called police.