A major operation was launched to find the doctor after he vanished while hiking alone in blistering 36C (97F) heat on the Greek holiday island of Symi on Wednesday.

It is now thought that Dr Mosley died less then two hours after leaving his wife from the beach on the Greek island of Symi last Wednesday at 1.30pm, before the discovery of his body five days later.

Timeline of Michael Mosley’s disappearance: How TV doctor went missing on Greek island of Symi. ... “It has been three days since Michael left the beach to go for a walk.

Symi is part of Greece's Dodecanese island group and sits about 12 miles (19km) north-west of Rhodes. In the 2021 census it had a population of approximately 2,600 people.

Video emerges of missing TV doctor Michael Mosley outside a business on the Greek island of Symi about 20 minutes after he was last seen by his wife at a nearby beach on Wednesday.

ATHENS/SYMI, Greece — British TV presenter and healthy living advocate Michael Mosley has been found dead in a rocky area on the Greek island of Symi, just metres away from his destination ...

The mayor of Symi has given a major update on the Michael Mosley search following the discovery of a body - and shared the search team's leading theory as to what happened to the TV presenter ...