Police investigating the disappearance of missing Dunfermline man Corrie McKeague say incinerated wasted examined in the search for him contained no trace of human bones.

The RAF gunner disappeared on September 24 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds.

The search has so far centred around a landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, after fears that Corrie could have fallen asleep in a commercial bin that was transported to the site.

Suffolk Police then searched the incinerator at Great Blakenham, near Ipswich, at the beginning of August after the 20-week probe of the landfill site ended.

They said they had recovered material that required further examination in order to establish whether it is in any way connected to the case.

However, police have now ruled out human remains in the ash.

A Suffolk Constabulary spokesman said: "Suffolk police have engaged experts to examine incinerated waste gathered from the Great Blakenham energy-from-waste facility and it has been confirmed that this matter does not contain human bone material."

Specialist officers from the East Midlands are to review Suffolk Constabulary's investigation to date and will assess whether there were any other lines of inquiry which need to be pursued.

The landfill sit is no longer operational but no more rubbish would be added to the search area until the review is completed following a campaign by Corrie's family.