The sad news that a body has been found by police looking for missing mum-of-two Nicola Bulley comes three weeks and two days after she disappeared. The 45-year-old had dropped her children off at school and was walking her dog Willow when she was last seen by fellow dog walkers.
The mortgage advisor, from Inskip in Lancashire, went missing on January 27 in St Michael's on Wyre. Rumours, speculation and conspiracy surrounded Nicola's disappearance, though police remained firm that while they were keeping an open mind, their main hypothesis was that Nicola had somehow entered the river. The news that a body has been discovered less than a mile from the bench where her phone was found should hopefully give her family some of the answers they have so desperately needed. As always with cases where bodies are discovered, it has not yet been officially confirmed as being the body of Nicola Bulley.