The body of a man has been found in a hunt for a missing 19-year-old who disappeared nearly a month ago after a house party.

Police scoured 2,000 hours of CCTV and spoke to 400 people as part of the investigation and confirmed the discovery this evening.

The corpse was sighted in a wooded area near Kilsyth Road in Scotland at around 4.15pm.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: 'Formal identification has yet to take place however the family of missing man Cole Cooper, 19, has been informed.

'Enquiries remain ongoing to establish the full circumstances.'