Police have confirmed that a body pulled from a river in Lancashire is that of the missing woman Nicola Bulley.
Lancashire constabulary said it had identified the mother-of-two after a body was found by two walkers in undergrowth near the village of St Michael’s on Wyre on Sunday.
The 45-year old mortgage adviser, who went missing 24 days ago, was discovered less than a mile from where she was last seen walking her dog, Willow, after dropping off her two young daughters at school on 27 January.
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