The couple, who were found dead in their remote home in south west France after a possible burglary gone wrong, had moved to the area almost a decade ago

A British couple were found dead at their home in Aveyron in unexplained circumstances on Thursday, February 6. The bodies of the unnamed British couple - identified as an English man and Scottish woman in their 60s - were found by a neighbour at around 13:00 at their home near Villefranche-de-Rouergue.

A British couple have been found dead at a house in rural southwest France. Investigators are reportedly looking at whether they were killed during a burglary but all lines of inquiry are said to remain open.

The pair, named on Friday as Andrew and Dawn Searle, moved to south west France from Scotland about a decade ago. The local mayor, Jean-Sébastien Orcibal, told French television that the deaths were "clearly a homicide".

Detectives have launched a murder investigation after a retired British couple were found dead in grisly circumstances at their luxury gîte in south-west France.

A British couple in their sixties were found dead in their home in southwestern France, with prosecutors saying on Friday they died a "violent death". The bodies of the couple, who had lived in France for years,

A British couple have been found dead in their home in south west France. Andrew and Dawn Searle, who moved to France from Scotland about 10 years ago, were discovered by their neighbour on Thursday.

Andrew and Dawn Searles have been named after their bodies were found by their neighbour in the hamlet of Les Pesquiès, in south western France.