Police were today continuing their search for a man who went missing on his honeymoon after they discovered his wife's body.

The body was recovered from the River Wharfe at Addingham yesterday and identified last night as missing newlywed Lynne Collett.

Mrs Collett, 26, a student nurse, of Long Sutton, Hook, Hants, was identified by her parents Ernest and Valerie Spreadborough, who travelled north with Brian and Margaret Collett, the parents of her husband Barry Collett who is still missing.

They identified her body at 9pm at Airedale Hospital, Steeton.

The search was continuing today for Mr Collett, a 29-year-old computer operator. The search was expected to concentrate on the area where Mrs Collett's body was discovered.

The couple, who had been honeymooning at a cottage in Appletreewick, disappeared a week ago after going for a walk by the river.

A police spokesman said: "The search of the river will continue today in the hope of finding Barry Collett. A post-mortem is likely to be carried out on the body of Lynne Collett today."

Mrs Collett's jacket was found on the riverbank close to the notorious Strid at Bolton Abbey, near Skipton, shortly after a walker reported seeing a body in the river.

Police divers were called to the Olicana caravan site at Addingham weir yesterday morning after a Bradford man spotted a body floating in the river.

The man waded in and made the body secure until police frogmen arrived.

The discovery was about four miles downstream from the Strid next to the caravan park in High Mill Lane, Addingham, off the Addingham to Bolton Road.

North Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Police have joined forces in the hunt for the bodies.

Divers spent more than four hours combing the riverbed and riverbank which is overhung by trees and roots, near to where the body was found. At this point the river is crossed by a medieval weir and divers concentrated their search in this area.

Later divers from both forces extended their search. North Yorkshire concentrated on a two-mile stretch north of the spot and West Yorkshire the two miles down stream.

The river in this stretch is wide in places and quite shallow with a number of deeper sections. Between the Strid and Addingham Weir is Lobwood Weir where Yorkshire Water has a pumping station.

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