A HARD-of-hearing teenager from Accrington who went missing for three weeks has turned up safe and well.

Christopher Joseph Knott, 19, was found by Staffordshire police yesterday in Stoke.

He had been missing since September 11 when he left the residential deaf school he attends in Doncaster, taking no belongings with him.

His family, including dad Allan, mum Christine, three brothers and one sister, who live in Willows Lane, Accrington, yesterday appealed in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph for Christopher to come home.