How the desperate search for three-year-old Noah Woods came to an end

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Police have found a body in the search for a missing three-year-old boy, whose disappearance sparked a huge community search effort. Noah Woods went missing at around 3pm on Tuesday in Brantham, Suffolk, when he became separated from a relative after visiting a park in Merriam Close. More than 1,000 people have joined the search effort in the 24 hours since, being organised into small patrols to comb the village, construction site and lake close to where he was last seen. Shortly before 6pm on Wednesday, police confirmed that specialist dive teams had recovered a body. It followed a day of intense search activity around the village, involving more than 1,000 volunteers, some of whom had travelled from across the country to join the effort. At lunchtime on Wednesday, police released CCTV images of the park showing Noah playing and then appearing to run from the area. The youngster, whom police described as non-verbal and with partial hearing loss, was reported to have run off down