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| Hazel North search: Police cordon set up in Kilmarnock park | |
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| Police have cordoned off part of a country park in Kilmarnock in the search for a missing woman from Fife. | Police have cordoned off part of a country park in Kilmarnock in the search for a missing woman from Fife. |
| A tent has also been erected in Dean Park. | A tent has also been erected in Dean Park. |
| Hazel North, 19, from the Cairneyhill area of Dunfermline, was reported missing on Friday. She last made contact with her sister on 4 March. | Hazel North, 19, from the Cairneyhill area of Dunfermline, was reported missing on Friday. She last made contact with her sister on 4 March. |
| Forensics experts searched a flat and garden in Kilmarnock over the weekend, but did not find anything suspicious. | Forensics experts searched a flat and garden in Kilmarnock over the weekend, but did not find anything suspicious. |
| On Saturday, police said there had been a possible sighting of Ms North in Stranraer, where her family lived, earlier this week. | On Saturday, police said there had been a possible sighting of Ms North in Stranraer, where her family lived, earlier this week. |
| Before going missing, Ms North had told her sister she was going to Kilmarnock to meet a male friend. | Before going missing, Ms North had told her sister she was going to Kilmarnock to meet a male friend. |
| Her family were said to have grown "increasingly concerned" for her. | |
| A forensic team started searching a flat and garden in Kilmarnock's Northcraig Road early on Friday morning, but had not uncovered "anything that would give cause for concern" when the search concluded on Saturday afternoon. | |
| Supt Kerr told BBC Scotland police were only informed of the teenager's disappearance on Friday. | |
| He also said she had recently been living in Stranraer with family and had contacted her sister by phone or text message. | |
| He urged Ms North, or anyone who who knows where she is, to contact police. | |
| "Hazel, if you are out there, can you please get in touch with police as soon as you can and let us know that you are ok," he said. | |
| She was described as being 5ft 8in in height and of slim build with a fair complexion. She has brown hair. | |
| Supt Kerr said a number of officers throughout the country were working on the inquiry. |