POLICE are appealing for information about a woman who has been missing from home for three days.

Beatrice Ashbolt, 58, left her home at Waverley Road, Blackburn, at 2.30pm on Friday.

Sergeant Andrew Barrow said: "We are very concerned for Mrs Ashbolt's welfare as she has recently suffered from depression."

Mrs Ashbolt is white, slim, with a pale complexion, blue eyes and light brown hair grey at the sides, short and permed.

She wears glasses and was wearing beige leggings, beige flat shoes, a turquoise and blue three-quarter length mac-style jacket, and she was carrying a white shoulder bag.

Anybody with information can contact Blackburn police on 01254 51212.

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