Merseyside Police are urgently appealing for information surrounding the whereabouts of a missing 16-year-old female.
Kirsty Rowson was last seen laving her home in Bromborough on Sunday October 31 at around 8.30am and has links to locations in the Wirral, Chester and North Wales.
The force have said that extensive enquiries are ongoing in a bid to find the teenager.
Ms Rowson is white, 5'5'' tall, with ginger hair worn in a pony tail and wears a pink nose ring in her left nostril.
She was last seen wearing a pink, purple and white tie dye t-shirt, blue jeans, white Nike Air Force trainers with black tick, and a navy blue shiny puffer jacket with a brown faux fur-lined hood.
According to the Missing People charity, somebody is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK, equating to a total of 170,000 people.
Of that number, almost 98,000 are adults and more than 70,000 are children.
The charity also states that 75% of adults are found within the first 24 hours of being reported missing and 85 per cent are found within two days, while five per cent are not found in the first week.
For children, the respective figures are 80%, 90% and two per cent.
If anyone sees Ms Rowson, Merseyside Police have requested that they contact the force via this online form: https://www.merseyside.police.uk/ro/report/mp/v2/report-sighting-of-missing-person-form/
You can also pass information on via @MerPolCC on Twitter, 'Merseyside Police Contact Centre' on Facebook, 101 or Missing People on 116 000.
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