An inquest has begun into the death of mother-of-two Nicola Bulley.
The 45-year-old vanished after dropping her daughters, aged six and nine, at school, then taking her usual dog walk along the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, on January 27. Her phone, still connected to a work Teams call, was found on a bench overlooking the water.
Ms Bulley, a mortgage adviser originally from near Chelmsford but living in Inskip, was immediately deemed a "high risk" missing person, sparking a huge police search operation, with hundreds of local search volunteers and intense media and public interest. Private underwater search specialists were also called in by her family amid a social media frenzy fuelling waves of sightseers and content creators visiting the scene.
