An inquest on the disappearance of a NZ man in London has heard he was a hard-working, religious man excited about his wife's pregnancy.

Searchers have found the body of a four-year-old boy who went missing in Northland last night. A diver found the boy in a pool beneath a small waterfall near Otiria Marae in Moerewa.

A search resumed this morning for a four-year-old boy who went missing in Northland last night.

A police search and rescue team looking for missing Pahiatua man John Campbell have found a body. Mr Campbell, 64, was last seen leaving his Pahiatua home, in the Tararua district, for work at 6.45am yesterday.

The remains dug up in Kingston, south of Queenstown, today were possibly those of a sheep, say police.

An elderly yachtie missing, presumed drowned, off the Far North coast did everything wrong and was an accident waiting to happen, say police.

A body found in a crashed car near Napier yesterday has been formally identified as missing motorist Alex Binns, police say.

One year on from his disappearance, police have renewed an appeal for information about a 19-year-old Nelson student.