A MISSING Swanage woman has been found safe and well this lunchtime (Thursday) after going missing last night.

Barbara Lawton, 84, was reported missing by her son as she wasn’t at her Southcliffe Road home when he went to see her at 8.30pm last night.

She was found by a man in Swanage town centre shortly before noon today in an alleyway. She had suffered a fall and is being checked by ambulance staff.