Specialists target Joanne search

Joanne Nelson worked in a JobCentre in Hull

Teams of specially-trained police officers are focusing their search for the body of Joanne Nelson in specific areas from Monday.

Over the weekend senior officers decided to scale back the hunt which had ranged across vast tracts of North and East Yorkshire.

Now teams of officers will be detailed to work from a new search co-ordination centre near Beverley, East Yorks.

Miss Nelson's family visited the search HQ near Wilberfoss on Sunday.

Police divers

Senior officers say the five search teams, including a specialist unit from the Trossachs and police divers, will now cover new areas.

So far around 80% of the search has been conducted in East Yorkshire with teams also ranging across North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

As the weather conditions ease following heavy snow and bitterly cold winds the teams will work to cover sites around Hornsea and Bishop Burton where access has previously been difficult.

Detectives are still asking land-owners, farmers and walkers to contact them if they know of a site featuring a rural tubular steel farm gate.

Police have information that there were a number of green bottles close to the right-hand-side of the gate.

Behind the gate is a short track before a copse of trees. The gate will be set back enough for a car to drive up to it and be off a surfaced road.

Miss Nelson's fiance, 30-year-old Paul Dyson, has appeared at Hull Crown Court charged with her murder.