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Hillwalker search team finds body Body confirmed as missing walker
(about 6 hours later)
The body of a missing person has been found in Kindrogan Wood near Kirkmichael in Perthshire. A body found by a mountain rescue team is that of a missing walker, police have confirmed.
Rescuers had been searching for a 48-year-old woman from Edinburgh who had been reported missing at about 1900 GMT on Friday. Rachel Sherratt, 48, vanished after going walking in Perthshire's Glen Derby area.
Tayside Police said the body was found at 1430 GMT on Saturday after a search operation by its officers, the RAF and mountain rescue teams. The remains of the walker from Midlothian were found by search teams in the Kindrogan Wood area near Kirkmichael on Saturday.
The identity of the dead person has not yet been released. Overnight conditions in the area were said to be treacherous with snow a foot deep in places.
The search, near the village of Kirkmichael, east of Pitlochry, had been called off because of poor visibility on Friday evening, but resumed again at daylight on Saturday. A Tayside Police spokesman said: "We can confirm that about 1430 GMT on Saturday the body of a missing person was recovered in the area of Kindrogan Wood, near Kirkmichael.
A police spokeswoman said conditions in the area were "pretty horrible" with snow on the ground and some sleet showers overnight. "This was after an extensive search by Tayside Police, RAF and civilian mountain rescue teams."
The alarm had been raised after the woman failed to return to her accommodation in Kirkmichael following a walk in the wooded hills around the village. In a separate incident Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team were called out to help a party of three climbers who got into difficulties on the summit of Ben Nevis on Friday.
Rescuers will continue to search on Sunday for Len Bennett, 70, who went missing while driving across a short causeway between his home on Davaar Island and Campbeltown on the Kintyre peninsula on Friday. The group became unable to navigate off the plateau due to the whiteout conditions.
The mountain rescue team, with a search and rescue helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth, located the climbers, who were helped off the mountain.
The climbers were all from the Lancaster area and one of the three was taken to the Belford Hospital in Fort William suffering from a knee injury, before being released after treatment.