and have expanded the search area. nick garnett has this report. two weeks ago, nicola bulley spent the morning getting her children ready for school and taking the dog for a walk. nicola was seen by a fellow dog walker at 8:50. and then again at 9:10 in a field further along the river bank. at 9:20, police have now established her phone was left on a riverside bench. 13 minutes later, her phone was found, along with her dogs harness. but nicola had disappeared. and that is all we know for sure. the police think that she fell down into the river and drowned. but it is a theory. there is no actual evidence for it. nevertheless, a specialist search team volunteered to help and, using sonar equipment, combed the bottom of the river in the village, but nothing was found in the stretch of river they were working in. if nicola was in that river, i would have found her,
fresh attempts to find information on her whereabouts, two weeks since she went missing. the a5 year old was last seen walking her dog in st michael s on wyre in lancashire. police believe she fell into the river, and searches for her have been extended out to sea. our correspondent nick garnett reports. two weeks ago, nicola bulley spent the morning getting her children ready for school and taking the dog for a walk. nicola was seen by a fellow dog walker at ten to nine, and then again at ten past nine in a field further along the river bank. at 9:20am, police have now established, her phone was left on a riverside bench. 13 minutes later, her phone was found, along with her dogs harness, but nicola had disappeared. police think that she fell down into the river and drowned. but it s a theory. there s no actual evidence for it. nevertheless, a specialist search team volunteered to help, and using sonar equipment, combed the bottom of the river in the village, but nothing
nevertheless, a specialist search team volunteered to help, and using sonar equipment, combed the bottom of the river in the village, but nothing was found in the stretch of river they were working in. if nicola was in that river, i would have found her. i can guarantee you that. she wouldn t have. we would have found her. and she s not there in that section of the river up there. for family and friends it s been two weeks of hell. we still have hope. we ve got two beautiful little girls that need their mummy home, but, again, the community is united again today, we re coming out in force just to give one last push that somebody driven past two weeks ago perhaps hasn t seen the news for whatever reason, and sheds a little bit of light on the situation. police have consistently called this a missing persons inquiry. there s no evidence of a crime, but that s not stopped some people thinking otherwise. social networks are awash with conspiracy theories. there have even been wannabe detec
police think that she fell down into the river and drowned. but it s a theory. there s no actual evidence for it. nevertheless, a specialist search team volunteered to help, and using sonar equipment, combed the bottom of the river in the village, but nothing was found in the stretch of river they were working in. if nicola was in that river, i would have found her, i can guarantee you that. she wouldn t have. we would have found her. and she s not there in that section of the river up there. for family and friends it s been two weeks of hell. we still have hope. we ve got two beautiful little girls that need their mummy home, and that s what s keeping us going. but, again, the community is united again today, we re coming out in force just to give one last push that somebody driven past two weeks ago perhaps hasn t seen the news for whatever reason, and sheds a little bit of light on the situation. police have consistently called this a missing persons inquiry. there s no evidence of
where it s believed ms bulley may have fallen in. 0ur north of england correspondent, judith moritz, has the latest. nicola bulley has been missing for 12 days. today, her partner paul walked past the bench where her phone was found, and went down to the water s edge, to the spot where police believe she may have fallen into the river. the private search team who have been looking for her talked him through the work they ve been doing. well, paul is extremely, obviously, upset. he wanted to go and see where the original entry point was again. if nicola was in that river, i would have found her, i can guarantee you that. we would have found her, and she s not there, in that section of the river up there. nicola had gone to walk the family s dog along the river wyre when she went missing. boats fitted with sonar equipment have been scanning the water, but there s still no sign, their screens revealing nothing but an empty river bed. the private search company has