Public awareness about a missing person can help police track them down. But in the case of Nicola Bulley, police say the social media activity is hampering the investigation.
Police confirmed earlier this afternoon that a body had been discovered in the River Wyre in Lancashire, less than a mile from where Nicola Bulley disappeared on January 27.
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Officers who spent 23 days searching for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley have retrieved a body from the river Wyre in Lancashire after a tip-off from dog walkers.
One of the dogwalkers who found a body in the river near where mother-of-two Nicola Bulley went missing was overheard telling police it was the body of a woman.