The father of missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague has told of his heartbreak six months after his son went missing.

Corrie, from Dunfermline in Fife, vanished after a night out with friends on September 24 last year in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

A wide-ranging search for the 23-year-old failed to find him. Earlier this month, police began to dig through a huge landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire.

The signal from Corrie's mobile phone had been linked to a load of rubbish picked up by a bin lorry in the "horseshoe" area of Bury St Edmonds which was taken to the Milton site.

Officers have warned that the massive search effort could take up to ten weeks to complete.

Speaking to STV News, Corrie's father Martin said he had now visited the landfill site three times.

Martin McKeague said: "I just never imagined being here six months down the line.

"It's just utterly heartbreaking and I don't wish this on anybody.

"I don't even know where the time has gone, I'm kind of just existing. I'm trying day by day to get through this mess."

RAF gunner Corrie was reported missing when he failed to turn up at his base, RAF Honington, ten miles from Bury St Edmunds.

His mother Nicola Urquhart, a serving Police Scotland officer, has led specialist searches for him.