EMOTIONAL tributes have been paid to a missing postal worker “with a heart of gold” after police confirmed they had found a body in a park.

Luke Harding, of Ferndale Close, Clacton, sparked a huge search after he vanished following a night out in Colchester.

Police officers searching for Luke discovered the body of a man in the River Colne, in Colchester's Castle Park, on Tuesday afternoon.

The body is not expected to be formally identified for several days.

Devastated friends have paid tribute to Luke, saying he had a "heart of gold".

Read the full story in the Clacton Gazette.