{"id":166110,"date":"2025-06-07T22:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166110\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:43:15","slug":"urgent-search-launched-for-missing-scots-oap-as-concerns-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166110\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent search launched for missing Scots OAP as concerns grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are growing concerned for Barbara Lamond, who vanished from the Craiglockhart area of Edinburgh on Saturday.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_missing-person-barbara-lamond.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Lamond\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Barbara Lamond(Image: Police Scotland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police have launched an urgent appeal to help trace an elderly woman who has been reported <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"missingLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">missing<\/a> from Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Barbara Lamond was last seen around 4pm on Saturday, June 7, in the Craiglockhart View area of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/edinburgh\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"city.Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">city.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"OfficersLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers<\/a> are becoming increasingly concerned for the 86-year-old&#8217;s welfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She is described as white, around 5ft 4ins tall, of slim build, with short grey hair. When last seen, she was wearing dark trousers, a dark padded coat, and may also have been wearing a light pink woolly hat and glasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Inspector Alison Lawrie said: \u201cWe want to make sure Barbara is safe and well. She is known to use buses and walk around the Oxgangs area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0_WACOMMUNITYQR3.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/>Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">You&#8217;ll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">All you have to do is <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/BZamc48XMaoEqKkIN7GWxV\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">click here if you&#8217;re on mobile<\/strong><\/a>, select &#8216;Join Community&#8217; and you&#8217;re in!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">If you&#8217;re on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click &#8216;Join Community&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out any time you like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose &#8216;exit group&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">If you\u2019re curious, you can read our <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/privacy-notice\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAnyone who has seen Barbara or who knows where she might be is asked to contact police as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Anyone with information is urged to call Police Scotland on 101, quoting reference number 3150 of 7 June 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It comes as police also are appealing for help to find teenager Ava Stewart who may have travelled to England alone after she boarded a train from a Scots train station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1749336195_492_0_ava-stewart.png\" alt=\"Ava Stewart\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Missing person Ava Stewart(Image: Police Scotland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ava Stewart from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/kilmarnock\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"KilmarnockLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Kilmarnock<\/a> was last seen at around 1.35pm on Friday, June 6, at Glasgow Central Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Following enquiries, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"officersLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">officers<\/a> believe she may now be in Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are growing concerned for Barbara Lamond, who vanished from the Craiglockhart area of Edinburgh on Saturday.Barbara Lamond(Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,10008,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-166110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-missing-people","12":"tag-police-scotland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114644504144765545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}