Search for missing UK girl (9) continues

A search involving hundreds of police goes on today for a nine-year-old girl who went missing after a swimming trip in west Yorkshire…

A search involving hundreds of police goes on today for a nine-year-old girl who went missing after a swimming trip in west Yorkshire.

Shannon Matthews was last seen at the gates of West Moor Junior School in Dewsbury on Tuesday afternoon. Police are investigating suggestions she had told friends she wanted to run away.

Police, neighbours and relatives searched for the missing girl for a second night in freezing temperatures.

Officers are investigating a sighting of the girl on playing fields behind the school on Tuesday evening and are checking the routes she may taken on the way home.