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Gaynor Lord 'upbeat and happy' days before she disappeared, says friend

Missing mother-of-three Gaynor Lord was “upbeat and happy” and talking about Christmas just days before she disappeared, a friend has said.

Detectives searching for Ms Lord say they have not been able to establish Ms Lord’s state of mind when she went missing with “any degree of confidence”.

Her friend Julie Butcher said she seemed “fine” when they last met on Tuesday last week.

“We were talking. She was a bit busy but we were talking about Christmas and she seemed fine, no different to the usual Gaynor. She was quite upbeat and happy,” Ms Butcher told the .

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