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jmetaB0256acb1bd9c7ff026e322de74f382c9a3aecfcb63cb1c32e8993e1a1166613685@3e91da6efcff989809c61111df8cb55d54bb6584fe5afb333c986f52bd1bcab9rss.itemmetarss.netM? <item><description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc12a7dd2-125f-4fb2-b7fb-224fe45f997c.png?crop=1600%2C900%2C0%2C0&resize=1200" /><div><div><p>Searches for the missing television doctor Michael Mosley resumed on Friday morning amid warnings of an extreme heatwave. </p><p>The presenter disappeared on Wednesday while walking back to his accommodation from a beach on the Greek island of Symi.</p><p>As rescue teams using dogs, drones and a helicopter resumed the search at dawn, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service issued an extreme heat warning with temperatures forecast to reach 48C (118F).</p><div><div><div><div></div></div><div></div></div></div><p>Mosley, 67, is well known for BBC shows including Trust Me, I’m A Doctor and The One Show as well as ITV’s This Morning. He is also a columnist for the Daily Mail and has a reputation for promoting intermittent fasting diets, including the 5:2 diet.</p><p>He had been staying with his wife, Clare, who<span> is also a doctor and author, with friends on the small island. He vanished after setting out for their accommodation in the centre of Symi town from St Nicholas beach.</span></p><span><div><h2>Advertisement</h2><div><div></div></div></div><p>His mobile phone was found in the friends’ home and officials said on Thursday that they did not believe he had it with him at the time he went missing.</p><p>• <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/dr-michael-mosley-missing-greece-island-symi-hh66h2t5x"><b>Greek police ‘baffled’ by TV doctor Michael Mosley’s disappearance</b></a></p><p>The rescue operation is focusing on Pedi, a small town about a kilometre from the beach, after a woman said she saw him there on Wednesday.</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fd2b0877c-7b3e-4a0f-995b-65157b489744.jpg?crop=3446%2C1942%2C0%2C0" /><div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>A helicopter was seen scanning the area for sightings of the missing doctor</div><div>PANORMITIS CHATZIGIANNAKIS/REUTERS</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>A police spokesman told The Times that Mosley and his wife had reached the beach by a small tourist boat on Wednesday morning.</p><p>“They forgot their phones at the home they were staying at. Hours later, the man said he preferred to walk back home,” the spokesman said. He added that a witness claimed he had seen Mosley passing by a bus station in Pedi. </p><div><h2>Advertisement</h2><div><div></div></div></div><p>Locals questioned how the presenter could have vanished from that part of the island.</p><p>Eleftherios Papakalodoukas, Symi’s mayor, told the BBC: “It is a very small, controlled area, full of people so if something happened to him there, we would have found him by now.”</p><p>He said it was likely that Mosley has “followed another path” or had fallen into the sea.</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F3a2e1d7e-9fd2-479a-951f-dd50762ea295.jpg?crop=611%2C783%2C71%2C15" /><div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>A picture of Mosley on the island was included in a social media post seeking information on his whereabouts</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>A friend of the person Mosley is staying with also said she was struggling to understand how he could have become lost. “It’s a road that sort of heads over the mountain side but it’s been recently widened and there is only one route, so it’s not possible to lose your way,” she told the BBC.</p><p>“So, it is probably a 20-minute walk down the side of the mountain, but it’s not overly rugged or something that would be seen to be too dangerous, it’s something that tourists do every day in the summer. I’m having trouble understanding how you could get lost.”</p><div><h2>Advertisement</h2><div><div></div></div></div><p>Locals speculated that Mosley may have been disorientated by the unusually intense heat on Wednesday afternoon.</p><p>Anaztasia Makri, a waitress at the beachside Katsaras restaurant in Pedi, pointed to the earth path where Mosley is believed to have walked from the beach he was visiting with his wife.</p><p>“It is very mysterious,” she said. “Many people make this walk, 20 people a day and no one has disappeared. It is 20 minutes to the beach. We have had many police here showing us his photograph but we do not recognise him. There is a bus every hour and a taxi, he could have taken that … If he has fallen into the sea, maybe it has taken him.”</p><p>The owner of Kamares café, near the alleged sighting, said that investigators and Mosley’s wife had reviewed video from the CCTV cameras and found no image of the presenter. Video from other establishments in the area was also reviewed.</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ff60ce1e9-3971-48d0-95f5-92ed56548be2.jpg?crop=4412%2C2994%2C0%2C119" /><div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Mosley was on holiday with his wife, Clare, when he went missing</div><div>KEN MCKAY/ITV/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>The owner said: “The path he trekked is not that dangerous. People aged 70 years old walk it every day. It was boiling, though, at the time and perhaps he suffered some kind of heatstroke and fell.”</p><div><h2>Advertisement</h2><div><div></div></div></div><p>Lieutenant Vaggelis and his search dog Scar, a six-year-old Alsatian, travelled by ferry to Symi to join the search on Friday morning. The pair are normally based in Athens.</p><p>The officer said: “I will speak to the police on the island and they will tell us where to search and Scar will find the scent. He can find someone if they are alive or dead. The dog has the training to find the human scent.”</p><p>He will join 25 searchers on Symi, some sent from the island of Rhodes.</p><div><div><div><div><div><div><img src="https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fb076299d-e7f8-4f7d-9bc2-0cb67920ba50.jpg?crop=2472%2C3178%2C355%2C450" /><div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div>Lieutenant Vaggelis and his dog Scar have travelled from Athens to Symi to join the search</div><div>DAVID BROWN</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p>A senior investigator said: “The search will continue for as long as it takes. It is just baffling that he cannot be found on such a small island.”</p><p>Hugo Tyler, an experienced walking guide in Symi, said: “I never regarded the path as being particularly difficult and over the years parts of the path have been concreted and steps installed, making it easier. It is a relatively short path that crosses a low ridge easy to follow and no branches off until one reaches Pedi.</p><div><h2>Advertisement</h2><div><div></div></div></div><p>“If someone had fallen off that path, I find it difficult to imagine that a search party would fail to quickly find the casualty. That would suggest that either Dr Mosley reached Pedi, and then what? Or, for some reason, he left the path and either climbed the short distance down to the sea or struck inland up the mountainside —in which case he would be into very rough terrain.”</p><p>Mosley was born in Kolkata, India, in 1957. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and worked in banking briefly before retraining as a psychiatrist. He joined the BBC in 1985.</p><p>He and Bailey met at medical school and have three sons and a daughter.</p></span></div></div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:30:29 GMT</pubDate><link><![CDATA[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/uk/media/article/dr-michael-mosley-missing-greece-symi-latest-b8jm0csfx]]></link><dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Dr Michael Mosley missing: search resumes on Symi amid heatwave warning]]></title><guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/uk/media/article/dr-michael-mosley-missing-greece-symi-latest-b8jm0csfx]]></guid></item>