Police searching for a British man who went missing on the Costa del Sol last month have found a body believed to be his.

Andrew Wade, 65, was last seen on August 15 with friends saying they were extremely worried something bad had happened to him.

Today National Police officers who had been participating in a search for him said they had found a body thought to be his in an area called Paraiso near Estepona.

A police spokesperson said: 'This morning, the National Police, members of Civil Protection and the Estepona Fire Brigade have set up an extensive search operation to locate a British citizen who disappeared on August 15 in the area.

'Throughout this time, an exhaustive investigation has been carried out, studying the steps that this person, a 65-year-old man, might have taken until the day of his disappearance.