Caroline Everest: Body found in hunt for missing student

A police cordon is in place near a stream in Sheffield where a woman's body was found this morning.

Officers searching for missing student Caroline Everest discovered the body at 3.45am.

Formal identification is yet to take place, but the teenager's family has been informed of the development.

The body of a woman has been found in a river by police searching for missing student Caroline Everest.

The 18-year-old has been missing since early on Sunday morning, when she was last seen at a nightclub in Sheffield.

"Officers searching the area this morning found the body of a woman in a river in Summerfield Street, at the bottom of Ecclesall Road, at around 3.45am," a South Yorkshire Police spokesman said.

"She has not yet been formally identified, but police believe it to be Caroline Everest. Her family has been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers."

Officers are still trying to establish the circumstances surrounding her death.