For the first six months, I had close contact with Afghans as a member of a propaganda unit, driving around mountain villages to hand out food and fuel and show films.

BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Moscow's Afghan war: The interpreter's story

Coastguards, members of the local mountain rescue team and officers with Strathclyde Police's marine unit have been searching the loch shores near the village and Kilchurn Castle.

BBC: Michael Pringle

Officers were assisted by the Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and an RAF air support unit in their search of the water.

BBC: Matthew Baird Parker