THE body of a man was found yesterday in the city where police have been search for a missing student for more than a week.

Officers were alerted when a member of the public called to report a body in the River Ouse at York near the A64 road bridge at about 10am today.

The body was recovered from the river but a positive identification is not expected until tomorrow.

The find comes over a week after Robert Davies, a third-year chemistry student at York University, went missing after a night out drinking with friends.