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Police have said they are growing increasingly concerned about a missing 16-year-old girl last seen cycling into a nature reserve in Sheffield.
Detectives have published images of the teenager, who they named only as Skye, as she rode a bike in the city’s Shirebrook Valley Nature Reserve on Tuesday af
CCTV footage released by South Yorkshire Police shows her cycling into woodland on a black and red men’s mountain bike, while wearing a red coat and a bag over her shoulder.
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Officers have also shared an image of a similar bike to the one she was riding in an effort to help locate her.
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Skye has long ginger hair and was last see at about 2.30pm on 26 December.
She was believed to be wearing a grey Lilo & Stitch jumper, green tracksuit bottoms with a black stripe and converse trainers.
Anyone with information on Skye’s whereabouts can call police on 101, quoting incident number 951 of 26 July.