TWO teenage girls who went missing from the Sudbury area have been found safe and well.

Dave Gooderham

TWO teenage girls who went missing from the Sudbury area have been found safe and well.

Paige Briers, 15, and Lauren Abbott, 14, went missing on Wednesday afternoon prompting frantic calls for information from friends and family.

But a spokesman for Suffolk police has confirmed that they had been located in Colchester this afternoon and are returning home.

The spokesman added: “Police would like to thank the media, public, Essex police and British Transport Police for their assistance in this inquiry.”