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The anxious sister of missing teenager Jade Lynch today made a heartfelt plea for the schoolgirl to return home.

Jade, 14, vanished 10 days ago in St Helens after telling her younger brothers she was going to meet someone.

No-one has seen or heard from the teenager, originally from Warrington, since.

Police say Jade left home that day without her mobile phone and now has no access to cash.

Her worried sister Stephanie, a student in Manchester, told a press conference : “She is not in any trouble, we love her very much and we just want to know she is okay.”

Detectives are studying Jade’s social media accounts to see if she had arranged to meet anyone before vanishing, but so far no clues have been found.

Stephanie said: “We just want to know she is safe because it’s not like her not to be in contact for 10 days.

“It would mean the world to me. As she has got older we have got so much closer.

“I love her so much and just want to know she is okay. We care so much about her.

“She has really grown into her own these last few years. As she has got older we have really connected.”

Stephanie said Jade is obsessed with make-up, always “attached” to her phone and is a member of the cadets to help her dream of joining the army.

Stephanie also described how she saw Jade the day before she vanished.

She said: “I saw her the day before she went missing. We went for a walk together.

“I said ‘is everything OK with you?’ and she said everything was fine.”

Jade vanished on March 26 at 1pm while on her way into St Helens with her brothers to go shopping at Asda.

The siblings separated in Duke Street after Jade said she was going to meet someone.

She is described as white, 5ft 6ins tall with long black hair.

Jade was wearing a black hoodie, black trousers and white Nike trainers when she was last seen.

Detective Superintendent Jon Betts, from Cheshire police , who is leading the hunt, said: “The biggest area of concern is that Jade has dropped out of contact with all her support network.

“Usually with a missing person enquiry the person stays in contact with somebody, certainly a 14-year-old.

“The fact she isn’t making contact with anybody is concerning.”

He added: “We are exploring social media to the extent we can but, concerningly, there’s nobody interacting with her and no social media activity.

“That is unusual for her. That’s her life, her normal behavior.”

Jade went missing for four days last summer and was found in Manchester.

She has links to Merseyside, Manchester, Cumbria and Bristol.

Anyone with information is asked to call Cheshire police on 101, quoting reference number 257 of March 29.