Nicola Bulley search updates: Partner speaks out as search for missing mother-of-two continues

Police have released a detailed timeline of the 45 minutes leading up to Nicola Bulley's disappearance on Friday morning.

The mother-of-two first started walking along the path lining the River Wyre, in Lancashire, at 8.43am, having already dropped her daughters, aged six and nine, off at school.

Her Strava account reveals it's a route she took often and knew well, sharing pictures of her Spaniel Willow frolicking in the field and in the river. On average, it'd take her about 30 minutes to complete the loop and return to her car, which her family say she parked in the same spot about '1000 times over' through the years.

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Members of the emergency services have been pictured continuing their search for Nicola Bulley on Friday morning.

Police officers and fire and rescue responders have been seen searching nearby fields and the river for any signs of what may have happened to the 45-year-old, along with the assistance of search dogs.

The map of Nicola's walk shows how she set off shortly before 9am and followed the river until vanishing.

There is a small geographical area in which she could have disappeared, but the circumstances to the incident remain completely unknown.

Ms Bulley's sister Louise Cunningham made a heartfelt plea yesterday, saying she needed to 'get my sister back'. 

Joining her family for a round of television interviews, she said: 'Something has got to have been missed. Somebody must know something. People don't just vanish into thin air. 

'There has got to be somebody who knows something and all we are asking is, no matter how small or big, if there is anything you remember that doesn't seem right, then please reach out to the police. Get in touch and get my sister back.'

Ms Cunningham said her family felt they were 'stuck in a nightmare'. 

'We're going round in circles to piece together what happened. We've got to keep an open mind,' she told ITV News. 

'We have no idea where she is. There's no evidence to point us in any direction.

'My hope is that she's still out there. We just want her home. Her children need her home. It's heartbreaking. We're such a close-knit family, we'd do anything for any one of us.

'Somebody must know something, people don't just vanish. If there's anything you might have seen, please get in touch with the police.'

Friends of Nicola Bulley will today gather together to retrace her last known steps in an effort to jog the memories of people in the area, it has been confirmed.

As police officers continue their search, friends of the family will walk along the route she took last Friday morning in an effort to spark people's memories.

Police have said that no resources are being spared in the search for the mother-of-two.

At the end of his first media interview before Nicola Bulley's disappearance, her emotional partner Paul said he and her family will 'never ever' lose hope of finding her.

Speaking about the support shown to him by local residents, Paul said: 'It's amazing. It's the only thing that we can take that level of support is out of this world. It gives us a great amount of comfort.'

He added: 'We're never ever going to lose the hope.

'But it's like she's vanished into thin air.'

Nicola Bulley's partner has said he does 'not know' how he is coping as he desperately supports his two children since the disappearance of their mother.

He said: 'I don't know how I'm coping. I don't even want to think about that. it's just about the girls, that's it, I'm there for them. I don't really want to elabporate on that, I don't want to take my eye off that.'

Continuing the interview with Sky News, Paul said: 'I just can't believe that we are a week on and as yet it seems like we're no further on.

'It just seems absolutely impossible, like a dream. I cannot get my head around any of it.

'Every single scenario comes to a brick wall, every single one of them. All we're doing is sitting there going round and round and round, every scenario, and then going back to the first scenario again, and do the whole thing again.'

Nicola Bulley's partner Paul has spoken out for the first time since her disappearance a week ago. In an emotional interview with Sky News, he thanked his friends and the local community for their support.

'I don't really have anything to say other than what the family said yesterday. My whole focus is my two girls, just staying as strong as I can for them.

'I'm scared that if I put any focus into anything else, if I take my focus off that... I've got to be careful.

'I just hope that anything comes from the interview yesterday, no matter how tiny, and just to say a massive thank you for the community, friends, for everything that they're doing it's absolutely incredible.'

Yesterday, police issued a public appeal for a woman seen in CCTV wearing a red coat on the River Wyre around the time Ms Bulley vanished last Friday morning. 

MailOnline can now reveal that the 67-year-old woman, Christine Bowman, told police she did not see Ms Bulley during her walk with her own dog Snowflake.

Ms Bowman said she was baffled by the appeal to track her down because she had already spoken to officers on the day Ms Bulley disappeared - and she 'doesn't know anything'.

The local resident - who police hoped could provide key pieces of information in the search for Ms Bulley - does not travel as far as the bench where the missing mother's phone and dog were found. 

The mother of two first started walking along the path lining the River Wyre, in Lancashire, at 8.43am, having already dropped her daughters, aged six and nine, off at school.

At 8.53am, Ms Bulley emailed her boss and by 9.01am she was logged into her Teams call. Her camera was off and audio muted as she listened in.

By approximately 9.10am, a second witness recognised Ms Bulley in the distance. Police are working to try to narrow down this timeframe. 

Then, at 9.30am, the Teams meeting ended. Ms Bulley stayed logged on to the chat room. By 9.35am, her phone and Willow were found deserted on a nearby bench by another dog walker. 

Nicola Bulley, 45, disappeared while on a dog walk a week ago, last Friday morning.

She was walking along the River Wyre in Lancashire when she vanished without trace, just minutes after texting a friend to arrange to meet up with them.

The mortgage adviser sent the text at 8.57am just before logging on to a Teams call while she walked her dog, locals were told at a village meeting. 

Her final sighting was at 9.10am and 25 minutes later her phone and dog lead were found on a riverside bench.

Good morning, and welcome to today's coverage of the search for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley.

Here you can follow all the latest news as police continue the search a week after she disappeared on a dog walk.