Man's body is recovered from Ullswater, Cumbria

[dutchman]

Police searching for a man who went overboard from a pleasure cruiser on Ullswater have recovered a body.

Divers from the police underwater search team located the body of a man from an area of the lake near Sharrow Bay at 1700 BST on Wednesday.

Police are now working to formally identify the body.

The man who went overboard from the Lady of the Lake on 29 April is believed to be missing 62-year-old Tony Thwaites, from Warwickshire.

The coastguard was alerted on Thursday 29 April after passengers on the boat saw the man go overboard at Sharrow Bay at 1015 BST.

Tony Thwaites, 62, of Shelfield, near Alcester, has been missing from home since 28 April.

His car, a gold Subaru, was found nearby in Pooley Bridge.