Nicola Bulley: It's like torture, says friend of missing mum

Nicola Bulley's friends are acceptable to travel together, 2 weeks since the mother-of-two's disappearance.

The 45-year-old was past seen connected a riverside canine locomotion successful St Michael's connected Wyre, Lancashire, connected 27 January.

Friends volition basal by the main roadworthy successful the village, holding her photograph and urging immoderate witnesses to travel forward.

Police judge Ms Bulley fell into the river, but underwater searches - present extended to Morecambe Bay and Knott End - person failed to find her.

On Thursday, a rescue vessel was spotted doing sweeps wherever the River Wyre meets the Irish Sea - astir 10 miles (16km) downstream from St Michael's connected Wyre.

The hold of the hunt country came aft Peter Faulding, caput of a specializer diving team, said Ms Bulley was "categorically not" successful the conception of stream wherever constabulary deliberation she fell in.

Ms Bulley is known to person dropped disconnected her daughters, aged six and nine, astatine schoolhouse and past took her springer spaniel Willow for a locomotion alongside the River Wyre.

Her phone, inactive connected to a Teams call, was recovered connected a seat connected a riverbank overlooking the water, on with the canine pb and harness connected the ground.

Lancashire Police person dismissed suggestions Ms Bulley was a unfortunate of crime, but detectives said they remained "fully open-minded" to immoderate accusation that indicates wherever she is oregon what happened to her.

On Thursday, the unit issued 2 dispersal notices to interruption up groups coming into the St Michael's connected Wyre country and causing a nuisance.

Officers had antecedently warned members of the nationalist not to "take the instrumentality into their ain hands" by breaking into bare oregon derelict riverside properties to effort to find Ms Bulley.

Lancashire Police besides said officers were looking into a fig of "grossly offensive" comments being made connected societal media and whitethorn instrumentality ineligible enactment "where appropriate".

Ms Bulley's disappearance has prompted lurid comments connected societal media and a dependable watercourse of individuals person appeared successful the village, often filming constabulary enactment astir the country wherever she disappeared.