Police have confirmed a body has been found during the search for missing woman Nicola Bulley.
Nicola, 45, vanished in St Michael's on Wyre while walking her dog after dropping her daughters, aged six and nine, at school on January 27.
A spokesperson for Lancashire Police said: "We were called today at 11.36am to reports of a body in the River Wyre, close to Rawcliffe Road.
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"An underwater search team and specialist officers have subsequently attended the scene, entered the water and have sadly recovered a body.
"No formal identification has yet been carried out, so we are unable to say whether this is Nicola Bulley at this time. Procedures to identify the body are ongoing. We are currently treating the death as unexplained.
"Nicola's family have been informed of developments and our thoughts are with them at this most difficult of times. We ask that their privacy is respected."
The investigation into her disappearance has attracted widespread speculation as well as criticism of the police response. The force came under fire after making Ms Bulley's struggles with alcohol and peri-menopause public three weeks after she vanished.
In a press conference on Wednesday, they revealed the mother-of-two was classed as a "high-risk" missing person immediately after her partner Paul Ansell reported her disappearance, "based on a number of specific vulnerabilities". They later added in a statement that Ms Bulley, from Inskip in Lancashire, had stopped taking her HRT medication.
A public backlash and interventions from both the Government and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper followed, with Lancashire Police confirming a date had been set for an internal review into the investigation. A police spokeswoman said: "A review of the investigation is diarised and will be conducted by our head of crime detective Chief Superintendent Pauline Stables."
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