The partner of missing mum-of-two Nicola Bulley has shared a heartbreaking message as police share new CCTV footage of her on the day of her disappearance. Paul Ansell told Sky News that Nicola “has to be found safe and well” because “I can’t put those girls to bed again tonight with no answers”. It has now been 11 days since Nicola, from Inskip, vanished after last being seen walking her dog next to the River Wyre in St Michael’s, Lancashire on January 27. The dog, named Willow, was found shortly afterwards running loose in an “agitated state”- along with Nicola’s phone which was placed on a bench and still connected to a Microsoft Teams work conference call. Despite an extensive search by police, specialist diving teams and members of the local community over the last 11 days, no other trace of the 45-year-old has been found. At the moment Lancashire Police say that their “current working hypothesis” is that Nicola fell into the river, although this has been refuted by her sister Louise Cunningham who posted on social media that there is “no evidence whatsoever” to suggest this happened. Speaking to BBC Breakfast this morning (Tuesday, February 7), head of the team of underwater experts searching the River Wyre, Peter Faulding, admitted it was the “most unusual” case he had worked on over his 20-year career. He said: “Normally when we deal with a drowning victim, they are where they go down. “I would expect to find Nicola in the water right in front of the bench where she went down. She would not have moved, maybe two or three feet - this is so strange. In my 20-odd years of doing this, I have worked on hundreds of cases and I have never seen anything so unusual.” It comes as police release new images from Nicola’s doorbell camera showing her on the day she disappeared. The pictures show the mortgage advisor with her dog wearing a long dark coat and with her blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail. In an update, Lancashire Police said: "We can say with confidence that by reviewing CCTV, Nicola has not left the field during the key times via Rowanwater, either through the site itself or via the piece of land at the side. Also, we can say that she did not return from the fields along Allotment Lane or via the path at the rear of the Grapes pub on to Garstang Road. "Our inquiries now focus on the river path which leads from the fields back to Garstang Road - for that we need drivers and cyclists who travelled that way on the morning of January 27 to make contact." Nicola Bulley is a mum-of-two who lives with her family in Inskip, a ten minute drive from where she went missing in St Michael’s, Lancashire. She is 45-years-old, originally from Chelmsford, Essex and works as a mortgage adviser for Exclusively Mortgages. Police said Nicola speaks with an Essex accent. She is described as white and 5ft 3ins tall, with light brown, shoulder-length hair. At the time of her disappearance, Nicola was wearing a long black gilet jacket, black jeans and olive green ankle wellington boots.
