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Police in search for missing holidaymaker (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Police in search for missing holidaymaker
3:07pm Saturday 18th August 2012 in News By Steven Smith
THE Dorset police helicopter was sent up over Bournemouth town centre on Saturday afternoon to look for a missing holidaymaker.
Police said the 69-year-old woman, who walks using the aid of a three-wheeler, disappeared at around 1pm.
She was with her husband on holiday from Cheshire.
Anyone who thinks they have seen her should call police on 101.
Comments(13)
tricky1007
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4:39pm Sat 18 Aug 12
Linguist
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4:43pm Sat 18 Aug 12
tricky1007 wrote:Tricky, maybe if there was more information as to where the lady was last SEEN, then perhaps people could help. What is anyone supposed to glean from whats written above?
think its more if you think you saw an old woman who looked a bit confused, maybe a bit distressed but you did not think much of it at the time, but thanks for your sympathy!
mikeymagic
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5:47pm Sat 18 Aug 12
spooki
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6:35pm Sat 18 Aug 12
renea
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8:51pm Sat 18 Aug 12
tricky1007 wrote:I am very sympathetic, if I saw someone (old or young) who looked in distressed I would ask them if they needed help. I would not wait for a newspaper article to inform me of it!! This is a waste of time posting this, no information given at all. Hope this helps to clear it up for you or are you still a little confused?
think its more if you think you saw an old woman who looked a bit confused, maybe a bit distressed but you did not think much of it at the time, but thanks for your sympathy!
djdave73
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10:17pm Sat 18 Aug 12
e happens to be my mum....
ducatiwidow
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9:02am Sun 19 Aug 12
Benny Dorm
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12:32pm Sun 19 Aug 12
ducatiwidow wrote:I have to say your comment is so short-sighted and probably not based on being in possession of the full facts.
once again Dorset police have failed to make use of the resources freely available to them. Dorset is lucky to have a very well qualified volunteer Search team Dor SAR who will happily turn out to help search in such circumstances. This lady could have been found in a very short time if they had been called out ...instead of relying on the few people who may have read a small report on a newspaper website!
I would bet that the Echo called the police to ask why the helicopter was in the sky and was told that it's looking for a missing person. Then the Echo have published this very flimsy article without obtaining any of the details.
I doubt very much that this was an appeal put out by the police.
They probably found her within a very short space of time and the Echo reporter had since gone home and the article remains to be updated.
Calling out DorSAR would probably have been completely unnecessary in this instance, and by the time they arrived in the town centre she was probably found.
Come on Echo - why don't you call the police and ask them if she was found or not.
The lack of media appeals and coverage on local radio & tv tells me that she was probablyfound ages ago but yet again the Echo is not keeping it's news up to date. I know it's a weekend etc, but....
DorSAR are excellent search volunteers, especially for open countryside with vast spaces to search but something tells me they were not needed in the busy Bournemouth town centre where someone likely came accross her quite quickly and called the police.
So let's see what the Echo update is and then revisit your comment "Once again Dorset Police have failed..."
There's nothing like making a post based on assumption....
spooki
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1:25pm Sun 19 Aug 12
John T
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5:23am Mon 20 Aug 12
spooki wrote:Have they found the missing Echo news correspondents yet?!
Any update please? Have they found the lady and is she ok?
Benny Dorm
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11:06am Mon 20 Aug 12
You see, this is the thing with your newspaper. I'm never sure if what I'm reading is the full picture and this is not the only example.
As with this 'story'. It seems as if it was published without obtaining any useful or meaningful detail whatsoever, before the 'reporter' went home for the weekend.
Surely, in this instance, it would have been better not to have published it at all?
If I were the editor of this newspaper I would make it someone's responsibility to go through all of the 'most shared', 'most read' and 'most commented' stories & ensure they are updated where necessary.
This is an online edition, not print. There is a difference, you have the ability to update.
3 posters have asked if this woman is still missing and yet no reply....
Come on Echo. Do your job.
spooki
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2:26pm Tue 21 Aug 12
renea says...
4:32pm Sat 18 Aug 12