{"id":689083,"date":"2026-01-11T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689083\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:41:41","slug":"missing-man-with-links-to-salford-hasnt-contacted-friends-since-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689083\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing man with links to Salford hasn&#8217;t contacted friends since before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lee has links to Blackpool and Salford<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_111026Martin.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Lee\" loading=\"eager\"  \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Martin Lee, 66,\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Martin Lee, 66,(Image: )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police say a missing man hasn&#8217;t contacted friends since before <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/christmas\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Christmas<\/a> as they launched a public appeal to help find him. Martin Lee, from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/blackpool\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"BlackpoolLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Blackpool<\/a>, was reported missing on January 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The 66-year-old is described as around 5ft 2ins, with a stocky build, a white full facial beard and moustache. He also uses walking sticks and sometimes drives a mobility scooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Blackpool police said that Martin also has links to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/salford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Salford<\/a>. They urged anyone who has seen him or may have information to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police wrote: &#8220;Can you help us find Martin Lee who is missing from Blackpool. Martin, 66, hasn&#8217;t been in contact with friends since before Christmas and he was reported missing to us on January 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Our enquiries have been ongoing since then to find him, and now we are asking for your help. Martin is around 5ft 2, stocky build, with a white full facial beard and moustache.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;He uses walking sticks and sometimes drives a mobility scooter. As well as Blackpool, Martin has links to Salford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Any sightings of Martin or information as to where he might be, please contact 101, quoting log 0770 of 2nd January.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lee has links to Blackpool and Salford Martin Lee, 66,(Image: ) Police say a missing man hasn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[1990,748,393,4884,2465,1290,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-689083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-blackpool","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-salford","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115876992950219894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689083","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=689083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}