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Today marks the 40th anniversary of a day that many across Devon will remember like it was yesterday – the day schoolgirl Genette Tate disappeared.

On August 19, 1978 Genette Tate vanished from a country lane in Aylesbeare, Exeter.

Genette, 13, disappeared while doing a paper round near her home triggering what became one of the country’s most infamous missing person cases.

Two friends discovered the schoolgirl’s bicycle on a narrow country lane in the village of Aylesbeare, near Exeter, Devon.

No body has ever been found.

To mark the anniversary DevonLive has launched a weekly podcast: The Disappearance of Genette Tate.