Rachel police find remains

Police looking for missing Rachel Moran arrested two men after finding a woman's body today, police said.

They found the human remains at a property in Nash Court on the Orchard Park estate in Hull - a few hundred yards from the home in Saxcourt that she shared with her boyfriend, Mark Shepherd.

The two men were arrested on suspicion of murder, police said.

The discovery comes hours after police began searching hundreds of addresses close to where the 22-year-old lived in Hull. Between 80 and 100 police officers searched the Orchard Park estate, where Rachel was last seen.

Since Rachel's disappearance in the early hours of New Year's Day, all open areas and water courses within a mile radius of her last sighting on Hall Road have been searched by teams of specialist officers.

Rachel has been missing for four weeks. She was last seen in the early hours of New Year's Day when she left her parents' home in Hall Road, Hull, to walk the short distance back to her home in Saxcourt.

She had spent the night celebrating with her brother, John, at a local pub and had planned to spend the night at her parents' home. However, her boyfriend Mark phoned her to tell her he had gone to a party, and she decided to walk home to feed her four-month-old kittens.