DORSET Police have carried out a search for a vulnerable man, believed to be in his eighties, who was reported missing in Poole.

Officers searched in the Bournemouth Road area, Parkstone, for the man who hadn't been seen since 1pm. 

There was concern for the welfare of the man, who was last seen wearing a dark blue cap, brown jacket and who walks with a limp.

Poole Town Police tweeted that the man had been found safe and well at around 3.50pm.