Man held over missing teenager

A 32-YEAR-OLD man wanted in connection with the disappearance of British teenager Kyra Kershaw was being questioned by police yesterday.

The man was found in Sheffield, Derbyshire police said, but the 14-year-old girl was not with him.

Police are now concentrating their efforts on the Scarborough area, where there was a confirmed sighting of Kyra on Sunday.

She left her home in the Eastmoor area of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on August 18 and was carrying a white plastic bag full of clothes.

Kyra contacted her family on August 26. Nothing has been heard from her since.