{"id":28982,"date":"2025-05-15T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/search-continues-for-man-72-missing-from-dinghy-on-solway-coast\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:49:59","slug":"search-continues-for-man-72-missing-from-dinghy-on-solway-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/search-continues-for-man-72-missing-from-dinghy-on-solway-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Search continues for man, 72, missing from dinghy on Solway Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Searches are continuing for a 72-year-old man reported missing after going sailing on a dinghy off the Solway Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Alistair Turnbull, from Gatehouse of Fleet, was last seen at about 13:00 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">His dinghy was later found in the nearby Wigtown Bay area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Police said they were working with the coastguard, mountain rescue teams, drones and air support units to continue searching the coastline. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Supt Alison Wilson said: &#8220;Extensive inquiries are continuing and teams have been deployed across various areas in efforts to trace Alistair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We would also ask members of the public to report any information which may assist our inquiries to come forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy0kpd7934ko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searches are continuing for a 72-year-old man reported missing after going sailing on a dinghy off the Solway Coast. Alistair Turnbull, from Gatehouse of Fleet, was last seen at about 13:00 on Tuesday. His dinghy was later found in the nearby Wigtown Bay area. Police said they were working with the coastguard, mountain rescue teams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3563,905,10036,417,1157,376,10037],"class_list":["post-28982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-coast","tag-continues","tag-dinghy","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-search","tag-solway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28984,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28982\/revisions\/28984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}