The search for a missing woman has ended after a body was found at the bottom of cliffs.

Mother-of-two Christine Brooks vanished from her Newhaven home more than two weeks ago.

Police investigating her disappearance said they had discovered a woman's body.

It was found at Birling Gap, near Eastbourne, on Monday and was likely to have been there for some time. No formal identification had taken place last night but the clothing matched that which Mrs Brooks had been wearing when she was last seen.

Sussex Police said they were not treating the death as suspicious.

A post mortem examination will be carried out later this week. Mrs Brooks, 54, vanished from her home in Anderson Close after a row with husband Michael on May 19.

Mr Brooks said friends and family were "crying inwardly and outwardly" because of the trauma of not knowing if she was safe.

Together with sons Daniel, 30, and Mathew, 26, he put up about 600 missing posters in Newhaven, Lewes and along the coast between Brighton and Eastbourne.

Mr Brooks handed out leaflets at the Brighton Festival's Big Splash and tried to retrace her last known steps on a television news appeal.

CCTV footage showed Mrs Brooks bought lipstick and a bottle of wine from Sainsburys at Newhaven shortly after leaving home.

Last Thursday Mr Brooks made an emotional appeal for information in The Argus. He said: "Everybody who loves you - all your friends and family - are crying outwardly and inwardly. We need to know you're OK."

Her heart-broken husband told The Argus last night: "I would like to say a thank you to the media, the TV and the papers. Without them we wouldn't have been able to go on with our search for Christine.

"Everybody has been kind and sympathetic. We have lost the biggest love of our life."