Handwritten messages on yellow ribbons left for missing mother Nicola Bulley

It comes as the search for Ms Bulley, 45, a mortgage adviser from Inskip, has entered the 17th day.

Yellow ribbons have been tied to a bridge over the River Wyre (Peter Byrne/PA)

Friends and family have shown missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley has not been forgotten by leaving yellow ribbons with handwritten messages on a bridge close to where she disappeared.

Ms Bulley vanished on January 27 while walking her springer spaniel Willow in St Michael’s on Wyre in Lancashire, shortly after dropping her daughters, aged six and nine, at school.