Claudia appeal taken to Scotland

Police believe Miss Lawrence has come to harm

The father of Claudia Lawrence is to make his first public appeal for information outside of England to mark seven months since her disappearance.

Peter Lawrence will hand out leaflets to people at Edinburgh's Waverley railway station on Friday.

Posters appealing for information about Miss Lawrence will be displayed there and at Glasgow Central railway station.

Mr Lawrence, a solicitor from York, North Yorkshire, believes his daughter could be anywhere in the UK or abroad.

Miss Lawrence, 35, was last seen leaving the University of York's Goodricke College, where she worked, in March.

Her disappearance is being treated as suspected murder.

Suspicious activity

Mr Lawrence's spokesman, Martin Dales, said: "For 200 days now Peter has thought that, back in March, Claudia probably took a lift with someone she knew or vaguely knew.

"He believes she is being held against her will and that she could be anywhere un the UK or abroad given the 36-hour gap before anyone spotted she had disappeared.

"Although he finds it very hard, emotional and painful to talk about Claudia, he is determined to keep her name in the public's mind at this difficult time and he'll be asking the people of Scotland to be vigilant for suspicious activity wherever they may be."

Last month North Yorkshire Police sent officers to Cyprus to try to find people Miss Lawrence knew, after the last text message she received was traced to the Mediterranean island.

The force said several people acquainted with Miss Lawrence were spoken to but none was a suspect.