Police searching for a missing dog walker, originally from Gravesend, have found a body of a man near Whitstable.

Alan Nichols, 47, left his home in Whitstable at 6pm on June 11 to take his dog for a walk but never returned.

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Police officers were called by the Kent Search and Rescue Service to West Blean Nature Reserve at 8.30pm on Wednesday (July 1), where they discovered a body.

Mr Nichols is believed to have grown up in Gravesend and attended Thamesview School.

The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report is being prepared for the coroner.

Mr Nichols' family have been informed but formal identification has yet to take place.