Nicola Bulley: Missing mum's sister urges people to keep open mind

The sister of a missing parent who disappeared connected a canine locomotion is urging members of the nationalist to "keep an unfastened mind" and inactive look for her sibling.

Nicola Bulley, 45, was past seen adjacent to the River Wyre successful St Michael's connected Wyre, Lancashire a week ago.

But Ms Bulley's sister, Louise Cunningham, said determination was "no grounds whatsoever" of that.

In a station connected Facebook, she said: "Please support sharing my Nikki", adding that a stream autumn was "just a theory".

She added: "Everyone needs to support an unfastened caput arsenic not each CCTV and leads person been investigated fully, the constabulary confirmed the lawsuit is acold from over."

A large hunt has been continuing, including constabulary divers, drones, a chopper and hunt and rescue teams but nary hint of her has been found.

Police said their "working proposal is that she has fallen into the stream for immoderate reason".

They said determination was "no evidence" of thing suspicious.

Supt Sally Riley said: "There is perfectly thing to suggest from each the extended enquiries we person made that thing untoward has happened to [Ms Bulley] oregon that determination is immoderate third-party engagement successful her disappearance."

She said it remained a missing idiosyncratic inquiry.

Ms Bulley was past seen walking her canine Willow adjacent the River Wyre aft dropping disconnected her children, aged six and nine, astatine schoolhouse connected the greeting of 27 January.

The spaniel was recovered astir 25 minutes aft Ms Bulley was past seen by different canine walker astatine astir 09:10 GMT.

Her telephone was besides recovered connected a riverside seat - inactive connected to a enactment call.

One of Ms Bulley's friends, Emma White, who has been helping successful the search, said she believed "we're really nary further connected than sadly past Friday".

"We inactive person nary grounds and that's wherefore we're retired again successful force.

"You don't basal beingness connected a hypothesis, bash you? You perfectly tin person hypotheses but past you request thing to backmost that proposal up to go factual."

Detectives said they were "as assured arsenic we tin beryllium that Nicola has not near the tract wherever she was past seen and our moving proposal is that she has fallen into the stream for immoderate reason".

"Our probe remains unfastened and we volition of people enactment connected immoderate caller accusation which comes to light."

Ms Bulley's spouse Paul Ansell said helium would "never suffer hope" of uncovering her.

Police person urged locals to look retired on the stream for covering that Ms Bulley was past seen wearing.

This includes an ankle-length achromatic quilted gilet jacket, a achromatic Engelbert Strauss waist-length coat, achromatic jeans, greenish walking socks, ankle-length greenish Next wellies, a necklace and a airy bluish Fitbit.