Borders Underwater Search Team at the scene of the fatality. Photo: Steve Penny/Tweed Valley MRT

Mountain rescue team members joined an operation to recover the body of a man in a river in the Scottish Borders.

Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team was called out after the discovery of an angler’s body in Ettrick Water near Selkirk on Tuesday.

The team was alerted at 12.45pm and three members provided shoreline cover while four members of the Borders Underwater Search Team brought the man’s body from the middle of the river.

Tweed Valley MRT team leader Steve Penny said: “We were happy to be able to assist the police and our colleagues from the Borders Underwater Search Team.

“Our team has trained in bankside work and has appropriate safety equipment and that allowed us to act as safety cover for those in the water.”

A spokesperson for Lothian and Borders Police said: “The body was recovered around 2.40pm and enquiries are ongoing to determine the circumstances surrounding this death.”