say that, sadly, they have recovered a body. no formal identification has yet been carried out, they say, that is the crucial bit of information at this stage. we are unable to say whether it is nicola bulley at this time. that is a tent here, a lot of investigations are taking place. they are trying to identify that body and that process is still ongoing. they are also saying at this stage, nicola s family have been informed of developments and their thoughts are with them at this most difficult of times and they are everyone to respect the family they re asking everyone to respect they re asking everyone to respect the family. nicola to support more than three weeks ago now, she had just dropped her children off at school. hersound just dropped her children off at
and i mean, that went all the way up to west side story. when i. when i said to the make up man one day, because it would keep streaking on my face, it was so dark that it would streak. and i said to him, i hate this make up. it s so dark. and why do i have to be this dark? i said to him, i m puerto rican. i m playing a puerto rican girl. and he actually said to me, what are you, racist? it s one of the few times in my life i was rendered speechless. this is bbc news. you join as well we have a story developing concerning nicola billy, who went missing and whose body has never
officers had been knocking on premises, more than 300 premises, they have spoken to more than 300 people. they have traced more than 700 drivers who went through the village at the time that nicola disappeared. there has been some criticism of lancashire police for revealing some details of her private life. they did that to address a lot of speculation that was appearing on social media and elsewhere. but all the time they said they were working on this hypothesis that nicola went into the water. they haven t found any trace, any evidence of that. but this development today is significant in many ways. they refer to that police helicopter which was hovering above the village just after midday today, hovering quite close to the water. we noticed a police diver had gone in. clearly all of this on the back of reports that a body had been
of this case. within a week of her going missing, local police had said that one possible explanation was that one possible explanation was that she could have fallen into the river whilst walking her dog. her dog is willow, and that was along the river wyre. that has been publication of cctv footage that people that the police had wanted to speak to, and a number of key people identified in that cctv footage had come forward. police are hoping that they would have come across or crossed paths with nicola on that walk. it was very popular with dog walkers and those using the riverside as part of their commute or walk. a shot of a helicopter
concerned, that area where that is police activity, it is about half a mile from the main road, about a mile from the main road, about a mile from the bench. that should not impact the police investigation hopefully. they want to focus on what they have discovered they are, as police have revealed in the past 20 minutes they do say they have recovered a body from the river. tests are being carried oh, no formal identification has been carried out at this stage, but of course nicola s family have been informed. taste course nicola s family have been informed. ~ , ., ., ., informed. we will let you go for now, informed. we will let you go for now. how informed. we will let you go for now. how is informed. we will let you go for now, how is death. informed. we will let you go for now, how is death. there - informed. we will let you go for now, how is death. there has . informed. we will let you go for. now, how is death. there has been informed. we will let you go for- now, how is d