Police searching for a missing 39-year-old woman have found human remains in a forest in Dumfries and Galloway.

Emma Faulds was last seen on April 28 in Monkton, South Ayrshire, and police searches were originally focused along the A714 between Girvan and Newton Stewart.

Remains were found during searches of Galloway Forest, an area of woodland in Dumfries and Galloway, and Ms Faulds's family has been made aware.

Officers previously appealed for information about two cars known to have been on the A714 around the time of her disappearance.

Police became concerned that Miss Faulds, a youth worker from Kilmarnock, may have come to harm after she failed to contact her family, which was described as uncharacteristic, and made no arrangements for the care of her pet dogs.