Helicopter search for missing woman

Jeanette Snowball has been described as "vulnerable"

Police are searching for a woman who is described as vulnerable after she went missing from East Yorkshire home.

Jeanette Snowball, 50, left her house in Fitling, near Aldborough, between 1800 and 2000 BST on Tuesday without telling her family where she was going.

A spokeswoman for Humberside Police said: "Officers are extremely worried about Mrs Snowball because she has had health problems in the past and for this reason is considered vulnerable."

A police helicopter and specialist search team have been scouring open land and wooded areas around her home since Wednesday morning.

The Humber coastguard has also been called in to assist in the coastal search.

Members of the public have been asked to check barns and outbuildings in case she has wondered into them overnight.