Search for missing body continues
They received the call on Monday morning from a member of the public who said they had seen a man in the water on the stretch next to Myton Fields.
Police, fire and ambulance crews are at the scene where divers are conducting a thorough search of the river with underwater cameras and officers are patrolling the banks.
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Hide AdInspector Stewart Bosworth was in charge of the search and said: “We just had a report saying there was a somebody having problems in the river, there isn’t much more I can tell you at the moment.
“We are responding to a report at the moment, we could be here a long time.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, no body has yet been retrieved, more details to follow.