A friend of missing Nicola Bulley has said the search for her is "like torture" as she pleaded for "a piece of information".
Nicola, 45, vanished on January 27 after dropping her two daughters – aged six and nine – at school, then taking her springer spaniel Willow for a walk along the river.
Since then an extensive search has been underway, with divers searching the river across three days. On Wednesday, February 8, Peter Faulding, an expert diver, met Nicola's partner Paul Ansell and told him she had still not been found.
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On Thursday, Emma White, a friend of Nicola's, described the search for her as a "rollercoaster". Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms White said: "It is just a rollercoaster, it is almost like torture, the despair, the unimaginable frustration in the sense that everyone has come together, working so hard: the police, the community, people on the ground.
"You expect to be rewarded for when you put hard work in, so we just need something, anything, a piece of information that can lead us down a different inquiry."
The friend, asked about police being given the power to break up groups causing a nuisance in the Lancashire village, urged visitors to stay away.
She added: "People are offering to come and help but that's not really helping the situation. Ultimately, we all want to bring Nikki home but we need to do it in a logical, systematic way and we have to leave it to the police."
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