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Page last updated at 14:10 GMT, Friday, 3 July 2009 15:10 UK

Neighbour's shock over body find

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The body of pensioner has been found in a tenement flat in Edinburgh where it may have lain for up to five years. Isabella Purves, who owned the flat, would have been 90 this year.

Local people told BBC Scotland they were shocked and saddened.

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