Missing Darlaston schoolgirl is found

A school girl who went missing from her Darlaston home, sparking a major police search operation, has been found.

Police helicopters and dogs spent last night scouring parklands and surrounding areas near nine-year-old Chloe Pedley's home in Walsall Road.

The Pinfold Street JMI pupil had not been seen since she set out on a journey that normally takes 10 minutes, to Asda, in St Lawrence Way, at around 7pm last night.

But she was discovered shortly before 11am today at a "nearby address", police said.