LANCASHIRE police helicopter was called in to help search for a six-year-old boy who went missing from his home in Rockcliffe Street, Blackburn, at tea-time on Saturday.

His family alerted police when they discovered the youngster, who was playing in the yard, had disappeared. He was found safe and well in the Ewood area almost three hours later.

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