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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Shweta Sharma and Andy Gregory

Nicola Bulley - latest news: Conspiracy theories ‘hampering search’ as partner ‘distraught’

Emma White

Specialist dive company boss looking for missing Nicola Bulley speaks out

A specialist diving team has begun searching a part of the River Wyre near the bench Nicola Bulley’s phone was found on.

Specialist Group International (SGI) founder and CEO Peter Faulding said his search crew will be focusing the operation “upstream in the non-tidal section above the weir” after the first day of the operation on Monday.

It comes as speculation, guesswork and “people descending upon St Michael's on Wyre” is “hampering” the search for missing mother-of-two Nicola Bulley, and “causing inordinate distress” to her family, a local MP has warned.

Mr Faulding has previously said: “If Nicola is in there, we will find her. If she’s there, our sonar will pick her up straight away.”

He described her partner Paul Ansell as “extremely distraught”, adding: “It’s a horrible thing to be going through not knowing where your loved one is.”

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