POLICE have found a 24-year-old man who went missing from home for almost a week.

Daniel Mark Tuck, from Billingham, was located in a North hospital last night.

Search teams spent six hours yesterday hunting for Mr Tuck at Wingate Quarry, in County Durham.

He was last seen on Friday at a flat in Hartlepool, and Cleveland Police were becoming increasingly concerned for his whereabouts.

Following a tip-off, they asked Cleveland and Teesdale and Weardale search and rescue teams to search caves in the nature reserve at Wingate.