Police officers searching for missing man Robert Blair have found a man’s body in wooded area near Mayfield.
Officers issued a renewed appeal this morning,
“A formal identification has still to take place, but officers are liaising with Mr Blair’s family. The death is not being treated as suspicious.
A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: “Around 12.25pm on Wednesday, October 9, police were notified a man’s body had been found in a wooded area in the Mayfield area of Dalkeith.
“Formal identification has still to take place, however we believe it to be 67-year-old Robert Blair who was missing from Dalkeith.
“Officers are liaising with Mr Blair’s family. The death is not being treated as suspicious.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
