A friend of missing mum-of-two Nicola Bulley has revealed a text message she received minutes before she disappeared, the Mirror reports. A week on from Nicola’s disappearance her friend revealed that she texted a friend about meeting up the following week with her kids. The friend said: “She booked a playdate, 8.57, she sent a text message to a friend whose mortgage she had just recently signed off on to arrange for the girls to go for tea this week.”

The friend said the message indicates that Nicola had no intention of going missing. 

She said: “You wouldn’t have done that if you were going to get up and go missing.”

Nicola is also known to have logged onto a work call at the time of her disappearence, but with her camera and microphone off after her phone was found by a passer-by. 

Police confirmed that the phone was still logged into the call.

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