spotted on a steep slope above a beach. yesterday new cctv footage emerged showing him taking a bath over miles of exposed hillside. earlier i wasjoined by over miles of exposed hillside. earlier i was joined by our correspondent. he had had a long career before he became well known. he had had a long career. he had been diagnosed with type two diabetes. there was a man who is doing diabetes reversal clinical trial who suggested diet could solve your blood sugar problems. he said he went down there and that led to the 5 to diet and the blood sugar diets. what is fascinating is that you look at the tributes today and how many are people just saying, thank you. i lost 6.5 stone. the former deputy leader of the labour party lost about seven stone. he said, it is hard to describe how upset i am about this news. michael mosley has helped thousands of people to get well and healthy, iam helped thousands of people to get well and healthy, i am one of them. he was a hero to me. he w
on wednesday afternoon, when he went for a walk alone in a remote mountainous area. local officials say the body was spotted on a steep slope above a beach. yesterday new cctv footage emerged showing him heading towards a path that would have taken him over miles of exposed hillside. in the past hour we ve had a statement from michael mosley s wife clare. it reads. i don t know quite where to begin with this. it s devastating to have lost michael, my wonderful, funny kind and brilliant husband. we had an incredibly lucky life together. i am incredibly proud of our children, their resilience and support over the past days. we re taking comfort in the fact that he so very nearly made it. he did an incredible climb, took the wrong route and collapsed where he couldn t easily be seen by the extensive search team. we are so grateful to the extraordinary people on symi who have worked tirelessly to help find him. our correspondentjoe inwood our correspondent joe inwood has the late
our correspondent, joe inwood, is on the island of symi. he gave this update. so there hasn t actually been a formal announcement yet. it sjust been. it s emerged reports have come. there s been police sources that have told us that a body has been found. now, it s important to say there has not been formal identification yet. we re standing actually just off the coast now, i should say it wasn t at a cave. we understand that a body was found, it was up on those cliffs there on the hillside. and so this is a busy beach. and so it was it seems that the body was there for a number of days whilst people would have been on that beach. and this is the headland that they ve been searching. this whole area has been covered by emergency services, by helicopters for a number of days now. and that s because it s gradually emerged that michael mosley, because of cctv, had made it to the village of pedi. now, if ijust give you a bit of a sense of the geography, it s around that corner ov
it reads. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from the island of symi. i ve been here for three orfour days now following the attempt to find michael mosley and you hear that statement from clare bailey mosley, and it is very sad, it is a very heartfelt statement for a man who so many people clearly loved and held in great affection. he was a very well known broadcaster, a doctor, a medical expert, but he was also a husband and father. a friend to many people and that is what came through in there. as you say, it was the news that we had been expecting from this morning and certainly, the longer it went on, the longer the search went on, the more unlikely it was that he would be found alive and well. it is incredibly hot here, incredibly difficult conditions, those hills behind me, those aren t the hills he was found on but but they are very similar geologically, they are the same sort of height, it is very rough terrain, very difficult, very exposed. it was right in t