Police have travelled to Ireland in their hunt for a schoolgirl who has gone missing with a man her mother met in an internet chatroom.
Maxine Bindi, 13, from Fleetwood, Lancashire, is believed to be with 37-year-old Alan Keegan, but there have been no sightings of the pair.
Officers have flown to Galway, but say they are also concentrating their search in Blackpool.
They are appealing to hotel owners to keep an eye out for the pair.
Lancashire police said they were "gravely concerned" for Maxine, who was last seen getting off a tram at Central Pier, Blackpool, on Sunday 2 October.
Moved in
Maxine has gone missing once before for a night and was found in Manchester city centre. Police believe she had been with Keegan.
Her mother met Keegan in an internet chatroom and he moved into the family home before their relationship broke down.
Maxine is mixed race with shoulder-length black hair, usually worn in a ponytail.
She has brown eyes and was last seen wearing a white hooded top with a monkey on the front, and pale blue jeans with pink hearts on the back pockets. Maxine has a burn scar on one of her hands.
Alan Keegan is about 5ft 10in tall, with blue eyes and weighs about 18 stone. He has black collar length hair, which is receding and going grey.
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