A communications device comprising a receiver configured to receive signals from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network in accordance with a wireless access interface provided by the infrastructure equipment, and a controller configured to control the receiver to receive data from the infrastructure equipment via a downlink of the wireless access interface, wherein the wireless access interface includes communications resources for allocation to the communications device on the downlink, the communications resources comprising time resources in which the wireless access interface is divided into predetermined time-divided units and the controller is configured in combination with the receiver to receive a message from the infrastructure equipment which has been transmitted with a number of repetitions, to enhance the likelihood that the communications device will successfully decode the message, in a search space formed in the wireless access interface over a number of time units, the search space extending in time sufficient to span a transmission of the message at a highest repetition level associated with a highest number of repetitions and transmitted on radio resources selected by the infrastructure equipment from a plurality of candidates for radio resources which define the search space for the communications device to search for the message, the plurality of candidates comprising candidates associated with a number, N, of different repetition levels for the transmission of the message, and the different repetition levels corresponding with different numbers of repetitions for the transmission of the message, wherein the controller is configured to control the receiver to receive the message within the search space in accordance with a search space pattern for which the receiver can receive a predetermined number of candidates of the message within a time allocated for receiving the message, which is less than or equal to a number of candidates of the message which can be received from the search space within the time allocated for receiving the message, characterized in that the controller is configured in combination with the receiver to receive the predetermined number of candidates of the message within the search space in accordance with the search space pattern in which a candidate with a higher repetition level is transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in preference to a candidate with a lower repetition level. a receiver configured to receive signals from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network in accordance with a wireless access interface provided by the infrastructure equipment, and a controller configured to control the receiver to receive data from the infrastructure equipment via a downlink of the wireless access interface, wherein the wireless access interface includes communications resources for allocation to the communications device on the downlink, the communications resources comprising time resources in which the wireless access interface is divided into predetermined time-divided units and the controller is configured in combination with the receiver to receive a message from the infrastructure equipment which has been transmitted with a number of repetitions, to enhance the likelihood that the communications device will successfully decode the message, in a search space formed in the wireless access interface over a number of time units, the search space extending in time sufficient to span a transmission of the message at a highest repetition level associated with a highest number of repetitions and transmitted on radio resources selected by the infrastructure equipment from a plurality of candidates for radio resources which define the search space for the communications device to search for the message, the plurality of candidates comprising candidates associated with a number, N, of different repetition levels for the transmission of the message, and the different repetition levels corresponding with different numbers of repetitions for the transmission of the message, wherein the controller is configured to control the receiver to receive the message within the search space in accordance with a search space pattern for which the receiver can receive a predetermined number of candidates of the message within a time allocated for receiving the message, which is less than or equal to a number of candidates of the message which can be received from the search space within the time allocated for receiving the message, characterized in that the controller is configured in combination with the receiver to receive the predetermined number of candidates of the message within the search space in accordance with the search space pattern in which a candidate with a higher repetition level is transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in preference to a candidate with a lower repetition level.