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5:24pm (UK) Parents' Plea to Missing Daughter By Chris Court and Louise Barnett, PA News The worried parents of a teenager missing from home since Friday today appealed for her to get in touch.
Anthony and Joan Eborne issued their plea to 18-year-old daughter Alicia through Devon and Cornwall police.
More than 60 officers were today searching part of Dartmoor for the missing college student, who vanished after leaving home to catch a bus.
Mr and Mrs Eborne, from tiny Corntown, on the fringe of the moor, near Ivybridge, said: ?We are surprised Alicia has stayed away from home. We know of no reason for her to leave us.
?Alicia please contact us just to let us know you are safe and well. We love and miss you and want to know you?re safe.
?None of us are angry with you, we just miss you and are very worried.
?Please, please just contact us so we know you?re safe, we love you.?
The couple issued their statement as specially trained officers were searching the Roborough and Bickleigh areas of the moor for any sign of the teenager.
People in the Corntown hamlet, which has just 14 houses, were shocked by the youngster?s disappearance.
Police have been using sniffer dogs in a bid to track down the teenager, and a spokesman said today her disappearance was ?totally out of character?.
Police said today that, although there had been a good response to an appeal for information from the public, they were ?very concerned for her welfare?.
Alicia, last seen by her mother at home at 8.45am last Friday, was intending to catch a bus into Plymouth, Devon.
She would have had to walk half a mile from her home to catch the 58 or 59 bus from the village of Cornwood.
Alicia, studying health and education at Plymouth College of Further Education, lived at home with her parents and three brothers.
She worked part-time in a patisserie in Plymouth, said police.
Alicia, slimly-built and 5ft 4ins tall with straight, shoulder length, brown hair, was wearing dark trousers, a black v-necked long sleeved jumper, dark brown boots, a short green military style jacket, and was carrying a green canvas bag holding college work.
House to house inquiries have been carried out, and bus and taxi companies have also been contacted.
A neighbour of the Eborne family said today that residents of Corntown were shocked at Alicia?s disappearance.
Jill Spencer, 61, said: ?I?ve lived here for 30 years and virtually nothing happens. It is extremely quiet here. There are probably more horses going up and down the road than vehicles.
?We are in absolute shock. We all know each other here. It is a nice little neighbourhood and we always check up on each other.?
She said of the Ebornes: ?They are a very quiet family. The children didn?t come out and play in the road but would stay in their back garden.?
Suzanne Cannell, who works at the village shop in nearby Cornwood, said today: ?As time goes on, people are getting more worried. Who knows what the family are going through? I think the general consensus of opinion is that people are hoping she has gone somewhere because we can?t bear to think anything else.
?It is quite a small place here and quite a close community but the family aren?t known very well.?
Garry Stephens, 22, who works at the Cornwood Inn, said: ?Everyone is talking about this and worrying what the situation is. I think parents have taken note of it and are keeping their children in.?
Ian Clark, vice principal of Plymouth College of Further Education, said: ?Alicia is a popular and hard-working student. The college is working closely with the police to help them find Alicia and we urge anyone with any relevant information to contact the police.
?Our thoughts at this time are with Alicia and her friends and family.?
Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman John Wood said officers could not rule out the possibility that the missing teenager had been abducted.
The schoolgirl did not turn up at her job in a Plymouth patisserie on Friday afternoon.
Her friends contacted the police that same evening when she failed to show up for a pre-planned night out in the city.
She had not collected her pay packet from work or touched her savings, Mr Wood said.
The student was said to use her mobile phone frequently to text and call friends. But her phone has not been used since her disappearance.
Alicia was said to get on well with her parents, who are both Jehovah?s Witnesses.
?She comes from a very stable, loving family. She was happy in the course and the work she was doing,? Mr Wood said.
Police search teams and sniffer dogs combed the roadsides and nearby fields in the Bickleigh and Roborough areas for any items which Alicia was carrying or wearing.
The entire seven-mile route from Corntown into Plymouth is to be searched over the next few days.
Sergeant Mike Rose, force search adviser, said: ?It is a very large search and it is going to continue to be a very large search. There are serious concerns for this girl?s safety and well-being and this is part of the overall search strategy.? http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2174037 I wonder what happened?