Human remains which were discovered in a countryside field have been found to be of a murdered miner who went missing 56 years ago. Police launched a major investigation after a farmer carrying out construction work with a JCB digger made the grim find in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts., on April 26.

Nottinghamshire Police has since been working with a team of scientists to try and identify who the decomposed skeleton belonged to. After the force issued a public appeal for information last month a man came forward to say his grandfather was reported missing nearby in 1967.

Russell Lowbridge was only four-years-old when Alfred Swinscoe disappeared after drinking at the Pinxton Miners Arms in Derbyshire. Family members had been waiting more than five decades for answers after Alfred, aged 54 at the time, went missing in "mysterious and unusual circumstances."