The first images of Nicola Bulley on the day she went missing while walking her dog have been shared by a friend. 

Pictures of the 45-year-old who went missing from St Michael's on Wyre on Jan 27 show her loading her car outside her home before driving her two children to school and going for a riverside walk.

Ms Bulley was wearing a long padded parka, navy leggings and green coloured ankle boots, and had her hair tied in a ponytail when she went missing.

Police say they believe the mother-of-two may have fallen in the river while walking her dog, Willow, a springer spaniel, last week.

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