Nicola Bulley disappearance

Extra powers granted to allow removal of people taking photos and video at scene of 45-year-old's disappearance.

On Tuesday, North Yorkshire police identified a body found in the River Ure on 29 January as They have deployed teams of underwater divers to search the river in the days since she went missing. We are looking into these and will not hesitate to take action where appropriate.”

The police theory that Nicola Bulley fell into the River Wyre while walking her dog has been disputed by her friends and family.

Ms Bulley, 45, disappeared while walking her dog along the River Wyre shortly after dropping her children off at school near the village of St Michael's, ...

Ms Bulley pictured with her dog Willow during a walk. This is the area police have been searching for almost a fortnight but there is no sign of Ms Bulley Lancashire Police is working under the hypothesis that she slipped into the water and drowned, but have admitted that it is possible she left the area by one path not covered by CCTV cameras. A camera at a house close to the path is also understood to have not been working at the time, but did not cover the exit regardless. A map of the area showing the location of the broken camera, the path leading to Garstang Road that is not covered by CCTV (top right circle) and a riverside path leading from the Wyreside Farm Caravan Park through to the A586 (left circle) Lancashire Police is working under the hypothesis that she slipped into the water and drowned, but despite meticulously combing a mile-long stretch of the river, no trace of the mortgage adviser has yet been found.

As the search for missing mum Nicola Bulley approaches its third week, former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Kirkham has put forward a ...

To be honest, I would view the information with a critical eye. This makes things more reliable and, of course, Willow was found there and who but Nicola would have taken her into the area. As a result the police will need to keep searching and re-searching a very long stretch of the River Wyre for some time. These accounts would presumably be confirmed to some extent by at least a small part of the CCTV footage. This is likely to be crucial in assessing the different hypotheses. Police will be scrutinising every aspect of Nicola’s life going back months or even years. As a result the information given to officers will not be particularly reliable or precise. The Lancashire Police enquiry team will be desperate to avoid the same fate. As the investigation approaches its third week, experienced detectives will have realised that this case is not going to be easily solved. They will wait near the point they last saw their owner. You take an example very well known to the public, think of the Madeleine McCann case. Her dog Willow was running loose.

From the mobile phone on the bench to the calmness of her dog, this is what the divers 'can't get their head around'

“Normally when we deal with drowning victims they go to the bottom and they will stay there for a while,” he said. Lancashire Police continue to appeal for witnesses and dashcam footage. A body will move after a time, but they searched that area and came up with nothing – that is what is weird here. It is a very short stretch. This would normally be sealed off as a crime scene so potentially crime scene investigators can go in and see if there are any microfibres, evidence, slip marks down the bank etc and I don’t believe that has actually happened here.” The forensics expert said: “People have been walking past the bench.

Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen on a riverside dog walk in St Michael's on Wyre on 27 January.

Ms Bulley's disappearance has prompted lurid comments on social media and a steady stream of individuals have appeared in the village, often filming police activity around the area where she disappeared. Her phone, still connected to a Teams call, was found on a bench on a riverbank overlooking the water, along with the dog lead and harness on the ground. The extension of the search area came after Peter Faulding, head of a specialist diving team, said Ms Bulley was "categorically not" in the section of river where police think she fell in.

At approximately 9.10am, a witness – somebody who knows Ms Bulley – saw her on the upper field walking her dog. Police know that at 9.20am, ...

Police continue to investigate what might have happened between the witness sighting and the phone being placed on the bench. The path leading to Garstang Lane, however, has proven to be a black spot. Police know that at 9.20am, her phone was on the bench it was later discovered on. We have mapped out the rough radius where the 45-year-old could have walked and driven to in those 10-minutes. From the last place she was sighted at approximately 9.10am, and where her phone was seen at 9.20am, there is a baffling 10-minute window where Ms Bulley could have walked or driven to the surrounding areas. We map out the rough radius where the 45-year-old could have walked and driven in those unaccounted minutes

Lancashire Police have dismissed any suggestion Ms Bulley is a victim of crime and say the scale of the missing person inquiry is “unprecedented”, involving 40 ...

Multiple searches of the “hot-spot” area near the bench, the suspected “entry point” of where Ms Bulley went into the water, have been conducted by police divers and underwater search experts. Lancashire Police have dismissed any suggestion Ms Bulley is a victim of crime and say the scale of the missing person inquiry is “unprecedented”, involving 40 detectives and following 500 lines of inquiry. Members of the local community have been standing by the road in the Lancashire village of St Michael’s on Wyre with banners and placards featuring her photograph, in a plea to “bring Nikki home”.

Nicola Bulely was last seen walking her dog Willow at about 9.10am on January 27 shortly after dropping her children off at school in St Michaels on Wyre, ...

“The local community are coming out to raise that profile, we’re trying to jog anybody’s memory. [The mortgage adviser, 45, ](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nicola-bulley-timeline-events-14-29170862)was last seen walking her dog Willow at about 9.10am on January 27, shortly after dropping her children off at school in St Michaels on Wyre, Lancashire. [Nicola](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-nicola-bulley-search-operation-29174678) [may be tracking a "tatty-looking" red van](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nicola-bulley-police-told-new-29176878) which a witness said was parked close to the spot she disappeared. [seven key questions](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/seven-key-questions-nicola-bulley-29178274) he believes need to be answered by the Lancashire Police enquiry team. [Yesterday, the search moved to Morecambe Bay](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-nicola-bulley-search-operation-29174678) as two boats with specialist teams were seen in the sea. A camera at a house is understood to have not been working at the time, but it still doesn't cover the exit. [to have been given a dispersal order.](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nicola-bulley-group-stopped-searching-29170561) It comes police are trying to get dashcam footage from about 700 vehicles that they have identified as passing along the main road through the village at the time Nicola vanished. [Specialist Group International chief Peter Faulding](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nicola-bulley-dive-team-pulls-29165928) said he is "100 per cent" sure Nicola is not in the stretch of river initially suspected, and his job is done. [BBC](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/bbc) Radio 4’s Today programme, she said: “It is two weeks today. [Nicola Bulley'](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/nicola-bulley)s disappearance and the first call to police to report her missing, as the search for her enters its 14th day. Lancashire Police have said they are working on the hypothesis that Nicola fell into the river, but no trace of the mum has been found after specialists have searched a mile-long stretch of the River Wyre.

Nicola disappeared almost two weeks ago when taking her dog for a walk after dropping her children off at school in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire.

As the search enters a 14th day on Friday, police have moved to the sea to begin trawling Morecambe Bay. Police investigating Nicola Bulley's disappearance are probing a two-hour gap between her going missing and the first call to police. We don’t know why Nicola may have entered the water if she did." Despite working under the hypothesis that she slipped into the water, police admitted that it is possible she left the area by one path not covered by CCTV cameras. Nicola was last seen on January 27 by the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, where she was on her usual dog walk after dropping her two daughters, aged six and nine, off at school. Former Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Kirkham has put forward a number of key questions he believes need to be answered. The former police officer writes: "As the investigation approaches its third week, experienced detectives will have realised that this case is not going to be easily solved. Three blind spots have been identified surrounding the area Ms Bulley went missing after police admitted she could have left the area via a path not covered by cameras. It is quite a key part of the village so people would remember going over it. You know when the girls get home from school they say 'any news on mummy?' and Paul has to say 'no'. It could have been a Renault van." We are looking into these and will not hesitate to take action where appropriate.

Police believe the 45-year-old fell in the River Wyre while walking her dog on January 27.

Multiple searches of the “hot-spot” area near the bench, the suspected “entry point” of where Ms Bulley went into the water, have been conducted by police divers and underwater search experts. Lancashire Police have dismissed any suggestion Ms Bulley is a victim of crime and say the scale of the missing person inquiry is “unprecedented”, involving 40 detectives and following 500 lines of inquiry. Members of the local community have been standing by the road in the Lancashire village of St Michael’s on Wyre with banners and placards featuring her photograph, in a plea to “bring Nikki home”.

Roger Jones was 16 when he disappeared after a motorcycle crash in 1978.

The county force again rejected suggestions that Nicola could have been a victim of crime, with detectives believing she has “most likely” fallen into the river. Lancashire Police have renewed their appeal for dashcam footage of St Michael's on the morning of January 27 when Nicola was last seen at around 9.20am. While a massive police search was launched, that included dog patrols, divers, and mounted police, Roger’s body was not discovered until two months later, when it washed up on a sandbank at low tide seven miles from St Michael's, the town where Nicola was last seen. It was 3am before police were alerted that someone was missing and returned to the bridge. Roger was a pupil at the former Fulwood High School, where he was working to go to Myerscough College to study agriculture and follow his dream of becoming a farmer. Student Roger Jones was thrown into a fast-flowing brook that fed into the River

Nicola Bulley went missing while walking her dog in St Michael's on Wyre on Friday 27 January after dropping her daughters off at school.

We have to find her safe ad well. In a voice note he sent to Sky News, he spoke of his pain and desperation for answers: "We need her back. A fortnight on from Ms Bulley's disappearance, the small rural village is no longer the same. we think she is not in there." Nicola Bulley went missing while walking her dog in St Michael's on Wyre on Friday 27 January after dropping her daughters off at school. [Ms Bulley](https://news.sky.com/topic/nicola-bulley-10579), is among members of the local community on Friday standing roadside in the [Lancashire](https://news.sky.com/topic/lancashire-6078) village with banners and placards featuring her photograph, in a plea to "bring Nikki home".

The search for the mother-of-two has now been ongoing for two weeks, as police work on the hypothesis that she may have fallen into the River Wyre while walking ...

Superintendent Sally Riley urged against speculation, but said it was “possible” that an “issue” with Ms Bulley’s dog may have led her to the water’s edge. Her father told the newspaper: “We just dread to think we will never see her again, if the worst came to the worst and she was never found, how will we deal with that for the rest of our lives.” Her family released a statement saying they had been “overwhelmed by the support” in their community, and that her daughters were “desperate to have their mummy back home safe”. Ms Bulley’s parents, Ernest and Dot Bulley, spoke to The Mirror about the “horror” they faced over the possibility of never seeing her again. Lancashire Constabulary spoke with a potential witness – a man who had been walking a small white fluffy dog near the River Wyre at the time of Ms Bulley’s disappearance. Members of the local community will stand by the road in the Lancashire village of St Michael’s on Wyre with banners and placards featuring her photograph, in a plea to “bring Nikki home”.

Ms Bulley was last seen on a dog walk by the River Wyre on 27 January. Police believe she fell into the river but underwater searches have failed to find her so ...

He urged people not to come to the village if they don't need to and "let the police do their job". Ms White added: "A dispersal order - what a misuse of police time and wasting valuable resources that almost take away from ultimate goal to bring Nikki home. Police have dismissed suggestions Ms Bulley was a victim of crime, but detectives said they remained "fully open-minded" to any information that indicates where she is or what happened to her. They have been extended to Morecambe Bay and Knott End after Peter Faulding, head of a specialist diving team, said Ms Bulley was "categorically not" in the section of river where police think she fell in. "It's just rollercoaster, it's almost like torture - just unimaginable frustration in the sense that everyone's come together working so hard, from the police community to people on the ground looking, you expect to be rewarded for when you put hard work in. A friend of Nicola Bulley has said the search for the mother-of-two without any answers is "almost like torture" - a fortnight on from her disappearance.

The Talking True Crime team will be hosting a special podcast at 1.30pm today, with Mark Williams Thomas speaking to a Lancashire Telegraph reporter live at the ...

Superintendent Sally Riley urged against speculation, but said it was “possible” that an “issue” with Ms Bulley’s dog may have led her to the water’s edge. Her father told the newspaper: “We just dread to think we will never see her again, if the worst came to the worst and she was never found, how will we deal with that for the rest of our lives.” Her family released a statement saying they had been “overwhelmed by the support” in their community, and that her daughters were “desperate to have their mummy back home safe”. Ms Bulley’s parents, Ernest and Dot Bulley, spoke to The Mirror about the “horror” they faced over the possibility of never seeing her again. Lancashire Constabulary spoke with a potential witness – a man who had been walking a small white fluffy dog near the River Wyre at the time of Ms Bulley’s disappearance. Members of the local community will stand by the road in the Lancashire village of St Michael’s on Wyre with banners and placards featuring her photograph, in a plea to “bring Nikki home”.