Police are urgently searching for two young girls who have vanished from their homes.
9-year-old Mia and 10-year-old Olivia, believed to be friends, have been pictured entering a supermarket after vanishing in the Redbridge area of the Isle of Wight.
There has been no word from them since this morning, Hampshire police said.
New pictures of the pair emerged with them carrying pillows and other belongings into a superstore in Southampton after they somehow made it onto the mainland.
Mia is seen wearing a Lilo and Stitch ‘Lazy’ t-shirt with Olivia seen carrying a backpack in a Southampton marathon top.
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Mia is described as white, about 4ft tall, mousey brown hair, blue eyes, a birthmark on her left shoulder and a large mole on her cheek.
Olivia is described as white, about 4ft tall, ginger hair, with a birth mark on her left arm.
In an updated statement a police spokesperson said: ‘We now believe both Mia and Olivia were last seen earlier today in the Winchester Road area of Southampton.’
Anyone with information about their whereabouts should call 999 immediately, quoting reference 44250487693.