Police are due to announce an update on the search for missing Dunfermine man Corrie McKeague today. 

Detective Superintendent Katie Elliott will issue an update on the search at 3pm at Suffolk Police headquaters. 

The news comes after the mother of the former St Columba's pupil said yesterday that police had been searching the wrong area of the landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, for 10 weeks. 

Writing on the 'Find Corrie' Facebook page, Nicola Urquhart, said that the search had been going on for 20 weeks becaise the police were first told that the rubbish had been emptied in a different location. 

Corrie, 23, went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds on September 24 last year.

Police are now searching a landfill site after fears he was taken there when his mobile phone singnal matched the movements of the disposal truck.

Nicola also added that "mistakes had been made" and she is "finding it incredibly difficult to remain quiet". 

The Dunfermline mum also posted that she had been told my police that the investigation would become a criminal one if Corrie was not found in the landfill.