Heartbroken family of missing Nicola Bulley fear 'somebody got to her'

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The heartbroken parents of missing Nicola Bulley fear "somebody got to her" after saying she was in "good spirits" when they last spoke with her.In their final conversation before her disappearance, Nicola's parents, Ernest, 73, and Dot, 72, said her "mind was great".The couple vowed they "will never stop looking for her" as the operation to find Nicola enters its sixth day.Speaking to the Mirror, they said the disappearance of the 45-year-old mum from in Inskip, Lancashire, was totally out of character.Ernest said she had no health problems and was in good spirits enjoying her job.He added: "Her mind was great, we picked the children up the Thursday before she went missing, as we do every Thursday."We took them home, Nicola had had a meeting with her boss in Garstang and she said can you stay a bit later because I have an important client coming in on Zoom.

We said 'no problem' and stayed."She had done her work and she was very upbeat about getting her mortgage sorted."I said we better go now and Nicola came to the front door, and I gave her a kiss and told her I loved her and that was the last conversation I had with her." Nicola dropped her young daughters at school and left the car parked up in St Michael's village and was last seen walking her dog on a footpath along the River Wyre at around 9.20am on Friday before she vanished.

A major search involving drones, sniffer dogs, specialist divers and a police helicopter has been unable to turn up any more clues, leaving her parents fearing the worst, especially with no evidence of Nicola having fallen into the river.

Ernest said: "There was no sign of a slip or falling in so our thought was 'has somebody got her'?"I asked the Sergeant from Fleetwood a few days ago, 'is