POIGNANT tributes have been paid to tragic teenager Dan Nolan in the yearbook of his old school in Southampton.

Dan, 14, was finally confirmed dead last month after tests on a foot discovered on a beach in Dorset in May revealed the remains were those of the youngster.

His classmates and form tutor speak of their loss in a page-long tribute in the annual book produced by King Edward VI, which celebrated the school's 450th anniversary this year.

Dan disappeared after a late-night fishing expedition on New Year's Day last year

Pupil James Joyce wrote: "He did this cool fishing talk in English, he was happiest talking about fishing."

David Charnley wrote: "Dan was really nice. He had a brilliant sense of humour. He was friendly and fun to be with."

His former tutor Jacqui Cole wrote that she would always remember Dan's smile.

She added: "Personally I shall always remember Dan on a school trip to Italy eight months before he disappeared.

"He had the most infectious smile and was always ready with a chirpy morning greeting, however early it was."

Dan's disappearance left his family, of Hamble Lane, heartbroken and they had clung to the slim hope he was still alive before last month's grim confirmation on the remains found in Swanage.

Another pupil, Sarah Cooke, wrote: "One of the fondest memories I have of Dan is in Group Base, he was just joking around, being Dan and making everyone laugh.

"That's how I want to remember him. Although our time with him was short, he will never be forgotten."

There are also page-long tributes to 17-year-old Robert Twigg, who died in a car crash last December and Victoria Colton, 14, who collapsed and died during a family holiday in Devon in August last year.

A tree was planted and dedicated to her during a touching memorial in March.

Julian Thould, head teacher at the school in Kellett Road in Shirley, wrote in the yearbook: "The death of young people is always very hard on a school community and to lose three in one year has been particularly difficult."