'Everybody was as one': Reverend reflects on search effort for Noah Woods

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'Everybody was as one': Reverend reflects on search effort for Noah Woods The love shown by a community who rallied to search for missing three-year-old Noah Woods was a thread of positivity amongst the tragedy, a reverend has said. Noah disappeared from a playground in Brantham, Suffolk, at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday after becoming separated from a relative. At least 1,300 people helped to try to find him in the following 24 hours, before a child's body was discovered on Wednesday afternoon at a nearby pond. Reverend Chris Willis said: Everybody was as one... what we saw throughout was a real coming together of people and a willingness to work together which, in spite of the deep sadness, was a thread of real positivity seeing how people cared. About 100 bunches of flowers have been left at the playground where he was last seen and more than £21,000 has been donated to a fundraiser to support his family.