specialist partners, so every potential possible way of improving your chances of finding nicola are being exploited. an update on the search for nicola bulley. we were told the drones, helicopters, police divers, wading through the river are trying to find her, clearly the office of their making it clear that as time goes on concern grows for nicola s safety. we were given a timeline of nicola s movements since she was last seen, she was on work teams call, that call ended, or at least the meeting ended, but her phone stayed engaged, and there is a crucial ten minute period just before 9:33am that the police are
cameras, looking at footpaths that people could have walked along, at that time, if they were leaving the area, again, no trace of nicola. we have the window of people seeing her just after 9am and they have the mobile phone found on the bench, and they can backtrack on that, they can tell that at 9:20am the phone was on the bench. their working hypothesis will be that she was sat on the bench as well listening to the conference call from work, and then at 9:33am, somebody came through the gate into that field, found the dog on the bench, sorry, found the dog on the bench, sorry, found the dog on wandering nearby, and the phone on wandering nearby, and the phone on the bench, and they don t know what happened in between, which is when nicola vanished. the main working hypothesis is that nicola fell into the water accidentally and
nicola s phone remains dialled in. at 933, a witness found nicola s dog, willow, running between the gate to the field and a bench where the phone was located. also found by the phone was located. also found by the witness was the harness which was on the grass between the bench and the river edge. therefore, the time that we are particularly interested in is between 9:10am, the last confirmed sighting, and 9:20am, when nicola s phone was found on the bench. , not found on the bench, when it was believed to be on the bench, found at around 9:33am. the witness made numerous inquiries to try and find the owner of the phone, not knowing who is full it was and indeed whose dog it was. that led
all of this was normal behaviour for nicola. this was not out of the ordinary and nothing unusual or different happened during those calls and e mails. at 9:10am, she was seen in the upper field. the dog was off the lead again, this was normal. the dog was not in its harness and the lead wasn t on the dog, which was all part of nicola s daily routine. at 9:20am, through inquiries we ve made, we believe that her phone was on the bench. at 9:30am, the teams meeting ended and nicola s phone remained dialled in. at 9:33am, a witness found nicola s dog willow running between the gate to the field and the bench where the phone was located.
elaine dunkley, bbc news in manchester. it is 6:33am. plenty more on that story throughout the morning. but before that, john has got a sport. this time last year at the australian open it was all about vaccines. this year we are talking about the tennis. we are talking about the tennis. we will be talking about novak djokovic when he features. it is brit watch this morning. smiles for emma raducanu, in contrast to what felt like a few days ago when she went out of that tournament in auckland, when she was in tears thinking she wasn t going to play. she has travelled out there and came through her opening round match. and jack draper is playing rafa nadal. draper said he loved nadal so much back in the day, he would copy his sleeveless shirt look. he is not doing it today. they are