Tributes have been paid to a missing pensioner after a body was discovered near a woods in the Scottish Borders.
The sad discovery was made in a wooded area near Newton St Boswells at 12.30am on Sunday, July 2. While formal identification is still to take place, the family of missing 86-year-old James Cockburn have been informed.
James, otherwise known as Jim, was reported missing from the Town Yetholm area near Kelso on Thursday, June 29. Police say there are no apparent suspicious circumstances surrounding the death, report the Record.
