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Missing backpacker reunited with father

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A 19 year-old British backpacker who has been missing for almost two weeks in remote mountains in Australia has been found and reunited with his father.

Richard Cass, who travelled to Australia to help find his son Jamie Neale, has spoken of his relief to be reunited with him.

The backpacker went missing in dense bushland in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

New South Wales Police said two "bushwalkers" alerted emergency services after finding Mr Neale.

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