Family of missing woman fear the worst

THE photograph of Maura Reynolds with her snow white hair is a poignant symbol of the changes in her life this past year and a half.

Maura was a redhead in her youth and she kept true to her natural hue, colouring her crown meticulously well into her 70s. When she went into the nursing home, she stopped and the red gradually grew out to reveal a brilliant white.

"She would have put her make-up on before she left though, I'm sure of that. No matter how badly the lipstick went on, it went on," said Maura's daughter- in-law Priscilla Reynolds.