Specialist police divers have returned to the spot where missing mum Nicola Bulley was last seen walking her dog to carry out a more thorough search of the area. A team of frogmen have been trawling beneath the surface of the River Wyre, while other officers searched the banks along with a fire service boat team who brought search dogs to scour the water.
The mum-of-two, 45, was walking her brown spaniel Willow along the river in the village of St Michael's in Lancashire on Friday morning at about 9.20am, the Mirror reports. A member of the public stumbled across her dog running loose on its own, which she recognised as Nicola's pet and the mortgage advisor's phone was also found discarded nearby on a bench.
The local phoned the school where Nicola's daughters attend and staff then contacted her husband, Paul Ansell, before the police were phoned. A huge search has been ongoing to trace the mum for almost a week.
