Police teams have been combing Osterley Park in west London for clues in the case of missing schoolgirl Alice Gross.

The new searches began yesterday and are planned to go on all day (September 29)

Alice Gross search teams search new area at Osterley Park

Osterley Park is around two miles away from where the missing 14-year-old was last seen and about three miles from where her rucksack was found.

Alice Gross, a Brentside High School pupil, failed to return home on August 28, sparking the Metropolitan Police's biggest search operation since the 7/7 bombings.

The area which Alice Gross search teams have been searching at Osterley Park this afternoon


At the weekend police also dredged a stretch of canal close to where she was last seen more than a month ago, Scotland Yard said.

More than 300 officers from over a dozen police forces across the country are involved in the increasingly desperate hunt.

A stretch of the Grand Union Canal was sifted through in the hope to recover her possessions, including her iPhone, but officers again drew a blank.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "That search was conducted as part of the wider search and nothing of significance was found. Searches are ongoing."

Missing 14-year-old Alice Gross