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The pregnant girlfriend of missing airman Corrie McKeague has been hospitalised after suffering from too much stress that put their baby at risk, according to his mother.

April Oliver, 21, from Norfolk, said she was expecting his child two weeks after his disappearance in September.

But Corrie's father claimed last month that Corrie knew she was pregnant days before he went missing.

Nicola Urquhart, 48, said on Facebook: "Hopefully everyone who has had any doubt about the nonsense being told about Corrie knowing April was pregnant will have been able to work out that its physically impossible for April to have known she was pregnant at the time Corrie went missing as she would have had the baby by now.

"Sadly the stress has put the baby at risk and she was hospitalised requiring strong drugs to try to help baby. But she's a fantastic mum already and managed to get herself and baby through it.

"She is not due yet but is doing very well. I will pass on your message, hopefully she will get some peace until baby arrives."

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Corrie disappeared from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, less than a week after a romantic getaway with April.

He had met the fitness instructor five months earlier through a dating website.

Police specialists believe that Corrie is in a landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, after CCTV footage last saw him entering a refuge area behind a Greggs in Bury St Edmunds.

Corrie's mobile phone was tracked following a similar route to that of a bin lorry, which was found to have carried weight akin to a human body.

Police have been searching the landfill for more than 13 weeks, and have sifted through 4,000 tonnes of waste.

Police confirmed this week that they will be deciding on whether to carry on with the investigation at the landfill site after finding no trace of Corrie during the search.