A huge police search has begun close to the river where missing mum Nicola Bulley disappeared, after officers received a tip-off from two dog walkers.
Emergency service vehicles raced to the scene less than a mile from where the 45-year-old was last seen in St Michaels on Wyre, Lancashire, on January 27.
The man and woman were seen along the River Wyre pointing at a particular spot as police drones and a helicopter hovered over the scene.
A photographer at the scene told the Mirror: "It all happened so fast. Police have sealed all the roads off. It's fair to say a massive search is underway."
It is understood a nearby road was sealed off after the call at around 11.50am on Sunday.
Three weeks ago the mum-of-two went missing with a massive investigation centred on the river as police suggested she may have fallen into within a "10-minute window".
After dropping her children off at school the day she went missing, Nicola was last seen walking family pet Willow along the banks of the River Wyre shortly after 9am. Less than an hour later, her mobile phone was found on a bench still logged into a Microsoft Teams call and Willow was running free.
Lancashire Police has come under fire for aspects of its investigation. The force was slammed for disclosing Nicola's problems with alcohol and the menopause; privacy campaigners expressed concerns over releasing intimate details of her private life into the public domain.
Police chiefs have since vowed to conduct an internal review, and have self-referred the force to the Independent Office for Police Conduct over an earlier meeting with Nicola weeks before she vanished.
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