A BODY has been found in the River Avon during the search for a missing Pershore woman.

A passenger on a narrowboat spotted a woman's body near Pensham Hill at 4.20pm yesterday.

The family of 68-year-old Patricia Curry, who went missing a fortnight ago have been told of the find.

A fire rescue boat - which features sonar equipment and had been used last week to search the river for the woman was launched to retrieve the body.

A date for a post mortem to formally identify the body had not been set as the Worcester News went to press.

Police said they were treating the incident as an unexplained death.

Mrs Curry went missing at about 12.50am on Monday, April 18, just days after moving in to her new home in Mount Pleasant, Pershore.

Police started a missing person's enquiry and issued a public appeal to help find the woman.

She was described as white, slim, with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair, having a Glaswegian accent and wearing wedding and engagement rings.

She was originally believed to have been wearing a blue anorak, jeans and brown boots.

One possible sighting of the woman - who used to live in Fladbury, near Evesham, and Northwick Road, Worcester - suggested she might have been wearing a nightdress.