Tia hunt calls on expertise of police in Shannon case

Police from the force that probed the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews have been consulted in the search for missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp, Scotland Yard have confirmed.

Tia, 12, has never run away before but vanished last Friday afternoon after telling relatives she was going to the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London, to go shopping.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police (WYP) as well as other forces around the country have been consulted in the search for Tia, police said.