Nicola Bulley: Friends join search for missing dog walker

Friends and household of a pistillate who vanished portion walking her canine accidental they inactive person anticipation she volition beryllium recovered live arsenic the hunt for her continues.

Nicola Bulley, 45, was past seen walking by the River Wyre disconnected Garstang Road, successful St Michael's connected Wyre, astatine astir 09:15 GMT connected Friday.

Her telephone was recovered connected a seat adjacent the riverbank, inactive connected to a enactment call, Lancashire Police said.

Ms Bulley's friend, Emma White, said the concern was "a nightmare".

A large hunt is nether mode involving police, the occurrence work and upland rescue teams, aft Ms Bulley's canine was recovered adjacent to wherever she disappeared.

"Our eventual precedence is to find Nikki," said Ms White. "We inactive person hope.

"We don't cognize what's happened, it was conscionable a mean time successful a mean life."

Members of the assemblage person joined the hunt for Ms Bulley, besides known arsenic Nikki, with friends and household mounting up a basal astatine the colony tennis nine to co-ordinate volunteers.

Ms White said: "The community, friends, radical from each walks of beingness person conscionable pulled unneurotic and person done a fantastic occupation successful offering support, which the household request close now.

"It's overwhelming. I indispensable person got 100 messages a time from radical one don't adjacent cognize conscionable offering america support."

On Monday Ms Bulley's partner, Paul Ansell, said it was "perpetual hell" for her family.

"All we tin accidental is we request to find her. She's got 2 small girls that request their mummy home.

"We person got to get immoderate bully quality now."

Ms Bulley, who works arsenic a owe adviser, is described arsenic white, 5ft 3in (1.6m) tall, with airy brownish shoulder-length hair.

She speaks with an Essex accent and was past seen wearing a agelong achromatic gilet overgarment with a hood, achromatic jeans and olive greenish ankle wellies.

As good arsenic Inskip and St Michael's, Ms Bulley besides has links to Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire Police said.