Help find missing Tia Sharp (From Your Local Guardian)

7:23pm

This is the new CCTV image of Tia Sharp taken the day before she went missing.

The clothes are similar but not the same. 

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7:05pm

New pic and full report of press conference now online here

6:42pm

DCI Nick Scola leading the search said there had been 55 unsubtantiated sightings of Tia. 

6:41pm

A new image has been released of Tia caught on CCTV which we will have online shortly.

Her uncle David Sharp said: "First of all we want to give Tia a message. I just want you to come home. You are not in trouble. Anyone that knows where she is or has information please come to us. Please phone the police.

I want to say thank you to the police for doing everything that they can and the public for being our support and being out there day and night.

I urge you not stop."

6:37pm

About 40 volunteers from Croydon, Sutton, Chiselhurst and Bromley, met to continue the search for missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp.
The group, many of whom were wearing high visibility waistcoats and wellies, with police at Croydon Rugby club to discuss how they can help officers with their search.
Officers said the group will need to search under the guidance of trained officers, who are currently searching the New Addington estate.
Despite being offered the opportunity to reconvene tomorrow morning, when more officers and maps will be available.
The volunteers have agreed to wait at the club until officers become free this evening.

6:11pm

6:11pm

5:30pm

Reader Surrey-L comments "I am constantly retweeting this & sharing on my facebook!

"I so hope Tia contacts her family & returns home safely!
Thoughts & Prayers are with all her family & friends & of course Tia! xx"

5:09pm

Another neighbour Jane Henry said she believes she was one of the last people to see Tia.
She said: "I saw Tia all last week playing along here with the kids mucking in, riding bikes.
"She is the same age as my son, I saw her playing on the street with groups of kids all happy and playing.
"The last time I saw her was early Friday afternoon, she was walking up the street here away from her grandma's house."
"She seemed fine, happy. She's a bubbly little girl, there was nothing wrong with her, she was happy last week."
Miss Henry added: "I just can't get over how much the community has come together, I just hope and pray she does turn up. "

4:39pm

Tia's Uncle David Sharp (L) makes his way to the Scotland Yard police press conference with a T-shirt bearing his missing niece's picture.

4:36pm

One neighbour said since Tia's disappearance children were either no longer playing out or were doing so in groups.
Dad-of-two Dale Robertson, said his daughter had played with Tia on occassion.
The 44-year-old said: "My daughter played with her once or twice, but I never met Tia.
"We try to be a nice, friendly community. My daughter has hand drawn posters and i have printed some out and laminated them and put them on lampposts.
"All we want is for her to be home safe and sound like everybody else.
"My boy went missing once for about 20minutes and that was heart in the mouth, I can't imagine how her parents must be feeling after three days."

4:31pm

4:04pm

Police continue the search into Tia's grandmother's street in New Addington.

2:59pm

Hundreds of residents in New Addington have volunteered to hand out posters in the search for Tia.

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2:47pm

Officers have just started searching the grounds of a school next to the estate.
 

2:34pm

A printing company has donated thousands of flyers in a bid to help find missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp.
Gadsby & Mustoe Ltd, based in Lind Road in Sutton, donated 10,000 flyers of the missing 12-year-old.
Thousands of posters are being handed out by family, friends and volunteers and many shops across the area have put posters up in their premises.

2:29pm

Two vans of police officers have arrived at the estate and are now carrying out searches in resident's garages and metal council bins.

1:36pm

One of Tia's grandmother's neighbours said: "I have seen her a few times, she seems like a nice, happy girl.
"I know the family are really worried and I hope she is found soon.
"I didn't see her on Friday, but she is at her grandma's quite a bit they seem quite close."

12:50pm

The community in Merton where Tia lives is rallying round and helping in the search. Dozens of posters have been put up in shop windows in Pollards Hill in Merton and hundreds more are being handed out in the street and community centres.

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12:45pm

HANNAH WILLIAMSON reports from New Addington -

Missing posters bearing the face of missing 12-year-old Tia Sharp hang in car windows outside her grandmother's house.
Detectives who entered the property in The Lindens about an hour ago, have just left the address with one officer carrying an evidence bag.
The British media has also descended on the New Addington estate with Sky and BBC news, and reporters from various national newspapers.

12:38pm

12:28pm

Former New Addington resident Chris Phillips, whose own daughter went missing in 2007, said he knows the desperate feelings Tia's family are going through and has repeated calls for anyone wih information to come forward.

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12:23pm

Reader jayred comments "Hope Tia is found safe and well at home with her family soon x Must be awful and so much stress for Tia's family."

12:00pm

New Addington residents have been out searching all over the area for any sign of missing Tia

11:50am

Bus and tram drivers are being asked to contact police if they gave Tia a lift.

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11:48am

11:44am

It's Day 4 of the search for Tia Sharp and police have repeated appeals for anyone who may have seen the 12-year old to come forward.

She left her grandmothers home in The Lindens, New Addington on Friday at midday on her way to Whitgift Centre, Croydon.

The schoolgirl from Pollard's Hill has not been seen since and police are concerned for her safety.