lancashire police. i don t criticise on this point, because i don t blame them for not being able to see around the corner, with regards to the numbers of people who took it upon themselves to go to st michael s on wyre. but the police will really have two develops strategies, think about this, think of hypothetical scenarios with multiple crime scenes and many people turning up. because, with the current explosion of interest, into crime, whether that be books, films, documentaries, podcasts and the like, this might not be going away. all injanuary 28, i understand lancashire constabulary were using drones, helicopters. they also brought and police dogs. again, to remind people, these ski search area was around the river. what sort of challenges with the police dogs have and to what extent would you be useful in finding a missing person? it varies from case to case, of course. sometimes a dog who is very useful for picking course. sometimes a dog who is very usefulfor pickin
that from the very beginning they thought this missing persons investigation, they treated nicola as high risk because she had specific vulnerability. they later clarified all that by telling us what those vulnerabilities wear. they said that nicola had alcohol issues and that she had struggled with the menopause, and that they had resurfaced in recent months. that provoked a lot of reaction. you heard that tweet from the home secretary. what followed was a lot of criticism, which perhaps the force was not expecting, from a number of groups who felt deeply uncomfortable that this kind of information was being released to the public, details of nicola s private life, three weeks into the investigation, and the questioned whether it was relevant, whether they had to do that at all. so the force was under a lot of scrutiny. lancashire police did inform nicola s family they were about to do this. they said that nicola would not have wanted that kind of information to be released.
awards take place in london shortly, with the german language film all quiet on the western front leading the field, with m nominations. nearly two weeks on from turkey s devastating earthquake, officials have said most rescue efforts to find survivors will end today. search operations have been winding down for days as the chances of finding people fade. more than 16,000 people are known to have been killed by the quake and the aftershocks. meanwhile, the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has arrived in turkey, at the incirlik air base. he ll hold talks with his turkish counterpart, before meeting some of the people affected by the quake, including white helmet rescue workers from rebel held parts of syria. our correspondent caroline davies has the latest from adana. tomorrow morning, it will be two weeks since the earthquake hit turkey and syria, and according to the turkish emergency and disaster budget, the vast majority of rescue operations will be winding down from