Publicity campaign for hostage

Peter Shaw has been missing for three months

A publicity campaign has started in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to secure the release of the kidnapped Welsh banker Peter Shaw.

The bank he was working for have organised campaign - including newspaper and television advertisements and billboard posters - to raise awareness about his disappearance.

Daughter Lisa Evans with two of her children

Mr Shaw, from Cowbridge, south Wales, was abducted near his home, in the capital Tblisi, more than three months ago.

Meanwhile, the European Union are also putting pressure on the Georgian authorities to do more to find him.

Earlier this week, his daughter, 31-year-old Lisa Evans, gave a picture of herself and her three children to Vale of Glamorgan MP John Smith to take with him as he flew out to Georgia to press for Mr Shaw's release.

His trip, which was to include a meeting with president Eduard Shevardnadze, was set up as an attempt to put pressure on the authorities to speed his release.

At the end of August, troops in the republic of Georgia were sent to a remote part of the country in an effort to find Mr Shaw.

Officials said they were hopeful of finding Mr Shaw and had indicated they know which area he is being held in.

Soldiers were looking for Mr Shaw in the Pankisi Gorge, a lawless region of Georgia on the border with Chechnya.

Midland manager

Mr Shaw was taken from his car in June a day before he was due to leave for his home in Cowbridge, in the Vale of Glamorgan.

He had been working as a financial adviser for Abgrobiznesbank and had been living in Georgia for six years.

Previously, he was a manager with the Midland Bank before taking early retirement and going out to work in ex-Soviet republics.

He was working for the European Union's Tacis programme, which gives loans to the agricultural sector.

As well as Mrs Evans, he has two sons, Rhodri and Philip, from a first marriage to Mair Shaw, and a son with his Georgian partner Diana Khorina.