criminal involvement. so their working hypothesis is that nicola has accidentally fallen into the river, and that s why their searches today and this weekend will be focusing on the river itself. but there s a huge team of volunteers also searching, and like nicola s friend, emma, they don t want to give up hope. they say they re looking at all possibilities to try to find out what has happened to nicola, and find her. yesterday, the police confirmed that they had very thoroughly searched this one kilometre stretch, but the river from here to the sea, it s about 14 kilometres long, so clearly there s a lot more work that needs to be done to search the river. it s not an easy river to search, because although it looks narrow, it s quite deep and it s very murky. so police have been using sonar and using underwater search teams. they ve also been consulting river flow experts to try to work out where nicola might be. meanwhile, the volunteers
circumstances that they can ascertain at the moment. they don t believe there is any criminal involvement. so their working hypothesis is that nicola has accidentally fallen into the river, and that s why their searches today and this weekend will be focusing on the river itself. but there s a huge team of volunteers also searching, and like nicola s friend, emma, they don t want to give up hope. they say they re looking at all possibilities to try to find out what has happened to nicola, and find her. yesterday, the police confirmed that they had very thoroughly searched this one kilometre stretch, but the river from here to the sea, it s about ia kilometres long, so clearly there s a lot more work that needs to be done to search the river. it s not an easy river to search, because although it looks narrow, it s quite deep and it s very murky. so police have been using sonar and using underwater search teams. they ve also been consulting river flow experts to try to work out where nic