Nicola Bulley

Nicola Bulley's friends say the situation is a "nightmare" but they still hope she will be found.

She urged "anyone who may have been driving through the village of St Michael's last Friday morning... In a message to her missing friend, she told BBC Radio Lancashire: "We're missing you immensely and we've got two little girls who want to see their mummy. "We still have hope. "It's overwhelming. The man "spoke to the woman in the area who found Nicola's dog near a bench in the field", the force said in an earlier statement. Lancashire Police said the witness, who was walking a white fluffy dog in the area, was "currently being spoken to".

Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen at 9.15am on Friday by a member of the public. Her partner says her family and friends have been living in "perpetual hell" ...

a nightmare." She's got two little girls that need their mummy home. You just want to wake up from it because it feels like a nightmare, that's what it is... "We want to hold on to the hope that no news is good news," Ms Gibbons said. In a statement, Ms Bulley's family said: "We have been overwhelmed by the support from our community and would like to thank everyone for their ongoing efforts to help us find Nicola. A "potentially key" witness to the disappearance of dog walker Nicola Bulley has been found and is now being spoken to by Lancashire Police, officers have revealed.

THE two young daughters of a missing woman broke down in tears as their distraught dad told them: “Mummy's lost.”Nicola Bulley, 45, vanished on.

Her hair was in a ponytail. Her going missing has rocked the community.” I would see either her or Paul. The friend contacted the school and staff called engineer Paul, who dialled 999. [Nicola’s partner Paul Ansell,](https://www.thesun.ie/news/10140573/update-missing-mum-vanished-dog/) 44, had to tell kids Harriet, nine, and Sophia, six, at the weekend. For immediate sightings please call 999. I knew Nikki to say hello to. Paul — who met Nicola in a pub and has been with her for 12 years — spent the weekend searching for her with family and friends “We ask for anyone who thinks they may have any information that may help the police find Nicola to please come forward and help them with their inquiries.” “From what I know, she dropped the kids at school, took the dog for a walk and took a call and disappeared.” A pal of Nicola spoke for her two heartbroken daughters and said: “We just want her home.” “She is a great mum and a great daughter-in-law.

Detectives say there is no indication so far that Nicola has come to harm by an attacker.

“We appreciate there is also a great deal of concern in the local community, and we appreciate people want to help. I must stress at this time that this remains a missing person inquiry and at this time there is nothing to suggest any third-party involvement in Nicola’s disappearance. Her hair was tied into a ponytail. For immediate sightings please call 999. Ms Bulley’s mobile phone was found on a bench near where she was last seen. “We ask for anyone who thinks they may have any Information that may help the police find Nicola to please come forward and help them with their enquiries.”

Nicola Bulley, 45, has not been seen since 9.15am on Friday 27 January after walking along a footpath in the town of Wyre, Lancashire. | ITV News Granada.

Nicola Bulley was walking her brown springer spaniel, Willow in the area. He is said to have spoken to a woman in the area before walking in the direction of Rowanwater. Police searching for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley say they have found the man they wanted to speak to who was seen in the area when she went missing.

AN unoccupied house has been searched as part of the hunt for missing mum Nicola Bulley.The 45-year-old's phone was found close to the home after she.

"We didn’t go into the house, as a volunteer search and rescue team we don’t actually go into buildings. We might go into a barn or something. He spoke to a woman in the area before walking in the direction of Rowanwater. They said the man was in the area at the time Nicola went missing walking a small white fluffy dog on a leash. "While the team was searching the grounds, the owner was there for some reason, and we asked him to go in and he had a quick look around and she wasn’t there." The mum vanished while walking her dog next to the River Wyre off Garstang Road in St Michael's on Wyre on Friday and police have been searching for the mum ever since.

The 45-year-old mum has been missing since Friday morning (January 27), after she vanished while doing her usual dog walk next to the River Wyre off Garstang ...

Asked if untrained volunteer searchers are a help, he said: "To be honest they get in the way because we do search professionally. "But her car was at the school and her phone was the initial planning point. But if they’re tramping over an area we’re searching on then it’s not good because it destroys all the evidence." We didn’t go into the house, as a volunteer search and rescue team we don’t actually go into buildings. Then on his way back in the dark, he came across two couples with torches who were searching the riverbank. We put the extra miles in, the distances in. We covered quite a bit." We don’t normally get that," he continued. [Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/abandoned-house-near-missing-mum-29099148): "The abandoned house is right opposite the bench on the other side of the river, over a 10ft garden wall. "We might go into a barn or something. He said his team only gets called out to 'high risk' cases that are not considered dangerous; for example, suspected criminals on the run. Kev Camplin, of Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue, led a team of 25 trained volunteers on the day Nicola - known as Nikki - went missing.

A huge search has since been launched near Garstang Road in St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire. Police said previously there was no evidence of any criminal ...

Asked if untrained volunteer searchers are a help, he said: "To be honest they get in the way because we do search professionally. "But her car was at the school and her phone was the initial planning point. The job has never been so tough'](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/teachers-not-striking-personal-gain-26116718.amp) But if they’re tramping over an area we’re searching on then it’s not good because it destroys all the evidence." "Sometimes we go to a search, classed as lowland search. "We covered quite a bit." "We leave that to the police. We don’t normally get that," he continued. He said his team only gets called out to 'high risk' cases that are not considered dangerous; for example, suspected criminals on the run. It is understood Nicola had dropped her two young children off at St Michael's-on-Wyre Church of England Primary School, and leaving her car parked nearby, went on the walk with spaniel Willow - something she is said to do regularly. The 45-year-old disappeared on Friday morning (January 27) while making a conference call from a bench as she was walking her pet dog Willow. Nicola's mobile phone was found on the bench along the river path.

Nicola Bulley disappeared after being spotted walking the family dog along a river footpath in Lancashire.

A lot of people attended the call. Her hair was tied into a ponytail. The police are investigating the call." She was on a work call at the time she disappeared, but she appeared to have her camera off and was muted at the time. Supt Riley said: "It was on a meeting call, and that was still live it was connected to the conference call and that hadn’t been terminated." On January 30, Lancashire Police said they found a mobile phone belonging to Nicola on a nearby bench, along with the dog lead and harness. A spokesperson said in a statement: "We are especially keen to find a witness we believe was in the area at the time Nicola went missing. "He spoke to a woman in the area before walking in the direction of Rowanwater." The alarm was raised by a member of the public who recognised Nicola's brown cocker spaniel Willow. They were looking for a man they believed was aged around 70 in the area at the time. The alarm was raised when a member of the public later recognised the brown cocker spaniel on its own and phoned Lancashire Police. A woman in the UK remains at the centre of a massive search operation, five days after she was last seen.