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| Police searching for a couple missing after their car was found washed up on a beach have found two bodies. | Police searching for a couple missing after their car was found washed up on a beach have found two bodies. |
| James and Susan Kenneavy's empty vehicle was found by workmen clearing debris on Drummore beach, near Stranraer, on Thursday morning. | James and Susan Kenneavy's empty vehicle was found by workmen clearing debris on Drummore beach, near Stranraer, on Thursday morning. |
| Police said they were called after the body of a woman was found at the edge of the water in Port William, near Newton Stewart, at 08:15 on Saturday. | |
| The body of a man was discovered nearby at 08:45. | |
| A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "Although formal identification has still to take place, it is believed to be the missing couple and their next of kin has been informed. | A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "Although formal identification has still to take place, it is believed to be the missing couple and their next of kin has been informed. |
| "A full report will be sent to the procurator fiscal. Our thoughts are with their family at this time." | |
| The discovery of the couple's empty Ford Kuga followed heavy rain and flooding on Drummore coastal road on Wednesday. | |
| The couple, thought to be in their 70s, had not been seen at home in Drummore and had not been in contact with family. | |
| Coastguard, lifeboats and mountain rescue teams joined a large scale search of the area which was suspended in fading light on Friday evening. | |
| Local people said conditions on the coastal route could be extremely treacherous, and large storm waves could affect the main road into the village. | |
| On Friday villager Edward Beck told BBC Radio Scotland Good Morning Scotland programme that local people were aware of weather and flood warnings. | |
| He added: "You can be driving through three, four feet of water and a lot of cars can suck water into the engine and you can get stranded. | |
| "That part [of the road] actually looks like it's in the sea if you hit it at the right time." | |
| The missing couple's neighbours, George Gregory and Lynne Copland, said they were well known in the small village. | |
| Mr Gregory told BBC Scotland: "I have been here more than 20 years now and Jim lived here when I first came here and he was just one of the local characters, I guess. A nice friendly fellow. A very nice couple." | |
| Ms Copland said the incident had been a "shock to the system". | |
| She added: "They were a lovely couple. If you met either of them outside in the street, they would stand and talk to you for as long as you wanted. They were a really, really nice couple." |