HOPE IT WORKS

Lorry firm helps find teenager
An appeal to trace a teenage runaway will appear on lorries owned by a North Somerset firm from Monday.
Lucy Sefton, 14, of Hackney, east London, has been missing for a year.

The National Missing Persons Helpline hopes the unusual initiative by Lafarge Plasterboard Ltd of Easton in Gordano will reunite Lucy with her family.

“My Christmas wish would be for Lucy to get in contact, even if it’s just to tell the helpline she is safe and well,” said her mother Leasha.

In November, pop star Will Young offered his support to the family as part of the BBC1 documentary on runaways.

Lucy disappeared from her home on 1 November 2003 after telling her mother she was going for a walk.

She was last seen wearing a denim jacket, a red T-shirt saying “possible”, blue-checked trousers and blue Adidas trainers.

Lucy is 5ft 6in tall, slim with collar length black hair and brown eyes. She has a mole on her left cheek.