EMERGENCY services are to decide this morning on their next stage of their search for a missing woman following the discovery of a wheelchair by a Hampshire river.
Solent coast guard, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service and police spent Wednesday night and most of Thursday scoring the River Test in Romsey to help find what was believed to be a disabled person who had gone missing.
Police were informed that the woman, who is thought to be about 55 years old, was last seen at 8pm Tuesday and that at 4pm she had been seen by the river's edge by workmen leaving a nearby home.
A friend who visited the scene said that she was paralysed from the waist down as she suffers from multiple sclerosis (MS) and has had to use a wheelchair for more than 20 years
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