A BODY has been found in the search for a missing pensioner.

Officers had been searching for 71-year-old Michael Davies, from Blaina in south Wales, after he disappeared on the Isle of Wight on May 26.

But the body of a man was found in marshland in Sandown at about 3pm today.

Formal identification has not yet taken place but his family has been notified.

Police are not treating it as suspicious.