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New online bid to trace missing trio

Bethan Dorsett
22/ 8/2007

A CHARITY has launched an online map with the hope of reuniting families with their missing loved ones.

Three Rochdale people, among them a 16-year-old girl, are featured on the website which aims to compile a list of sightings.

Created by charity Missing People, the site allows web users to click on a map of the country to highlight the North West to bring up names and pictures of missing people.

It also features ‘Missing People TV’ where families can post videos and other messages.

Listed as one of the longest missing is Adrian Eldred, who vanished from his house in Queens Drive in May 2003 after he stopped making regular Sunday visits to his father.

There were several unconfirmed sightings of the 43-year-old in Rochdale in 2005, but his family are still desperate to hear from him.

He is described as 5ft 8ins tall, of slim build, with short mousy blond hair and green eyes.

Adrian drove a white Renault Clio.

Others to be featured include Gary Blezard, who was featured in the Observer after he disappeared on 9 June and teenager Regina Tindall, missing since Sunday.

Gary, aged 24, of Hollow Spell, Hurstead, is 5ft 10ins tall, of slim build, with blue eyes and short brown hair.

He was last seen wearing a red Liverpool shirt, black fleece and blue jeans.

Regina has been missing from her care home in Hamer several times before. She is 5ft 5ins tall, of slim build with blue eyes and long brown hair.

The appeals coincide with the launch of Get Together Week, which the charity is holding to renew focus on the heartache of people missing from their homes.

A Missing People spokesman said: “This is the first time we have held such an awareness week and we are embracing the internet in our bid to help trace missing people.

“We are hoping that people will log onto the site and that this might generate new sightings of missing people in their particular area.”

The map can be found by logging onto the charity’s website at www.missingpeople.org.uk