Ben Needham

British police searching for Ben Needham, who went missing on the island of Kos 25 years ago at the age of 21 months, said on Tuesday that they have found items of "slight interest", including fabric and bones believed to belong to a dog or other animal.

The items were sent to London for forensic tests.

British police started excavations on a Greek island on Monday, saying they were armed with new leads into the disappearance of a British toddler there 25 years ago.

Police on Monday began excavation work on the island of Kos in the Dodecanese on Monday in the search for Ben Needham, a British toddler who went missing in 1991.

A new line of inquiry by the South Yorkshire Police suggests the 21-month-old may have died near a farmhouse his grandparents were renovating in July 1991.

British police start excavations on Monday on Kos island, following a new clue that the body of two-year-old Ben Needham, who disappeared in 1991, might be buried there.

According to reports, the mother of missing toddler Ben Needham says she has been told by British investigators that her son may have been crushed to death by a digger, in the Greek island of Kos.
South Yorkshire police confirmed its officers planned to return to the Greek Island of Kos, where the 21-month-old went missing in 1991, to excavate two sites after fresh leads.

Fresh testimony from a witness has opened a new line of inquiry into the 1991 disappearance of British toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos, the UK's Mirror reported on Friday.

The mother of Ben Needham, the toddler who went missing 25 years ago, will arrive on Kos on Tuesday with a team of British police officers in a bid to find information that could help the effort to find him.

The investigation into the disappearance of toddler Ben Needham from the village of Iraklise, on the isle of Kos, on July 24, 1991, has just warmed up with some new and interesting leads.

Ben Needham, who went missing while on holiday on the isle of Kos on July 24, 1991, would be 25 today. Over the years, his mother Kerry Needham has not stopped searching for the son that vanished after she left him in his grandparents’ care while she went to work at a local hotel. Previous leads have failed to come up with solid information but Ben’s family still keeps hoping.

South Yorkshire police said that the appeal made by Ben Needham’s mother on a three-hour Greek TV show – “Light at the End of the Tunnel” – resulted in a number of calls concerning the disappearance of little Ben 24 years ago while on holiday on the island of Kos, Greece. One of the leads concern the claim by a man who believes that it could be him and who is willing to undergo DNA tests.