WEST Mercia Police has said a missing girl has been found after issuing an urgent appeal.
Police said the 14-year-old, whose name we have no removed from this report, left her home in Old Colwall, near Ledbury, at around 6am on Thursday, March 2 and did not arrive at school.
Officers said she has now been found safe and returned home.
She was described as five-foot tall, medium build with mid-brown/slight ginger hair.
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Police said they believed she was wearing jeans and carrying a grey rucksack with a blanket and food inside.
"Her family are extremely concerned about her, she may head towards the Malvern Hills area," a police spokesperson said when the urgent appeal was first issued, telling anyone with information to dial 999.
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