Body found as search continues

London - Rescuers found a body yesterday as they scoured a rain-swollen beck for two girls who were swept away while "river walking…

London - Rescuers found a body yesterday as they scoured a rain-swollen beck for two girls who were swept away while "river walking" during a school trip. The body was discovered about four miles downstream from where the girls went missing yesterday in Stainforth Beck, near Settle, north Yorkshire.

Police named the missing girls as Rochelle Cauvet (14) and Hannah Black (13) both from Leeds.

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