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| A pensioner who went missing from a Thurso nursing home has died after being plucked from the sea by the emergency services. | A pensioner who went missing from a Thurso nursing home has died after being plucked from the sea by the emergency services. |
| Dennis Slater, 72, was last seen in the grounds of the Pentland Nursing Home in Thurso at 1600 GMT on Thursday. | Dennis Slater, 72, was last seen in the grounds of the Pentland Nursing Home in Thurso at 1600 GMT on Thursday. |
| A search dog on its first call out indicated to a RAF Lossiemouth rescue helicopter crew where Mr Slater was. | |
| He was pronounced dead at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness. Police will submit a report to the procurator fiscal. | |
| Northern Constabulary, Thurso lifeboat, Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), Assynt Mountain Rescue Team and the Search and Rescue Dog Association (SARDA) were involved in the search. | |
| Second search | |
| Newly-qualified search dog Skye was the first to indicate where Mr Slater was in the sea. | |
| The two-year-old border collie's handler, Assynt MRT member Innes Beaton, said the RAF helicopter crew made a sweep of the area and located the pensioner on a second search after refuelling. | |
| Mr Slater was recovered from the water at West Gills at 2250 GMT. | |
| Skye was one of nine search and rescue dogs and their handlers to be tested in a training exercise in Glencoe in March. |