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POLICE have begun searching a house in Coventry as part of the Nicola Payne investigation.
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Detectives confirmed they had excavate the back garden at an address in Miles Meadow, Courthouse Green.
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Meanwhile, police have arrested two men in connection with the case.
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The men, aged 74 and 45 and from the Coventry area, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to prevent the lawful burial of a body.
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Police say they have uncovered significant areas of interest on land near to where she went missing.
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Det Chief Insp Matt Markham said that experts with metal detectors and cadaver dogs are likely to check the site later today and excavation work could start in areas off Purcell Road, Courthouse Green.
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X-ray equipment will also continue to be deployed as police look to solve the 20-year mystery of what happened to Nicola, who vanished after leaving her boyfriend's home in Henley Green in 1991.
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