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Search continues for sailor missing in Dubai

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The increasingly desperate search for a missing Highland Perthshire sailor is continuing, with the Royal Navy expressing ”concern” over his safety.

Leading Seaman Timothy ”Timmy” MacColl was last seen getting into a taxi beside a cafe in Deira, Dubai, on May 27.

Exhaustive efforts are being made to trace the 27-year-old father-of-two, from Killin.

Police in Dubai are leading the hunt, although those closer to home are also playing their part.

A website, bringtimmyhome.co.uk, has been set up, with a Facebook page which has been visited by tens of thousands of people.

Meanwhile L/S MacColl’s uncle, Neil Cunningham, has travelled to Dubai to join the search for him.

A spokesman said the navy is ”concerned for the safety” of the St Johnstone fan.

He said: ”The Royal Navy and the Foreign Commonwealth Office are assisting the Dubai police to the best of their ability.”

L/S MacColl’s wife, Rachael who is expecting the couple’s third child has insisted her husband wants to be found.

Mr Cunningham paid tribute to the Dubai police, saying they have been doing ”everything possible”.

”I just want Timmy to know I won’t stop looking for him,” he said. ”The fact I’ve been in the places where he’s been and to the places he described to Rachael on the phone and by email has just made me feel closer to him and closer to finding him.”

Some residents in L/S MacColl’s adopted hometown of Gosport, Hampshire, have tied yellow ribbons on trees, lampposts, drain pipes and car bonnets to express their solidarity.