The partner of missing dog walker Nicola Bulley have said they are going round in circles thinking about what might have happened but “every scenario” is a dead end. 

Speaking near the scene where the mother-of-two was last seen Paul Ansell said he was “focusing on staying strong for the children”. 

He said all the family had been doing since she vanished a week ago was “sitting there” thinking about every possible scenario.

Ms Bulley, a 45-year-old mortgage advisor, disappeared whilst walking the family spaniel on her usual route around the village of St Michael’s on Wyre, where her two daughters are at primary school.

Speaking to Sky News, Mr Ansell said: “I can’t believe that it's a week on and as yet it seems like we are no further on. 

“It just seems absolutely impossible. It's like a dream. I can't get my head around any of it.

“Every scenario comes to a brick wall. Every single one of them. All we are doing is sitting there going round and round thinking of every scenario and then going back to the first scenario again and doing the whole thing again. It is all day long that is all we are doing.”

Mr Ansell thanked the local community for their support which he described as “incredible”. 

“It's amazing it is. That's the only thing we can take that level of support out of this world it gives us a great amount of comfort that that is going on. We don't have anything else do we.

“We are never ever going to lose the hope of course we aren't but right now it is as though she has vanished into thin air. 

“It's just insane.”

Mr Ansell said he was focusing all of his efforts on staying strong for his two children.

He added: “My focus is just on my two girls and staying as strong as I can for them.

“If I put any focus onto anything else it is going to take my focus off that.”

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