This video traces the last known movements of missing bride-to-be Victoria Taylor for the first time since her disappearance.
Victoria, known as Vixx to loved ones, vanished after leaving her home in Malton, North Yorks, last Monday.
Aerial footage taken today – as the search entered its ninth day – retraces the 34-year-old’s steps in the town as friends and family desperately hunt for clues.
Following the river Derwent before heading into the town the clip shows the BP garage, where Victoria was spotted on CCTV at around 11.35am wearing a backpack and a baseball cap.
It also takes in the town’s bus station, where the mum was captured on footage just moments later at 11.53am, roughly an eight minute walk from the garage.
Police say this is the last confirmed sighting of Victoria.
She was seen carrying a paper M&S bag – thought to be containing drinks bought at the garage – which she was clutching to her chest.
But she is believed to have walked from the bus station towards a nearby children’s play area, near the River Derwent.
And it is the river – where police found her belongings including her backpack and cap on Tuesday – that the search for her has been focused on ever since.
Aerial photographs show how close the the key points of the police investigation are as specialist search teams scour the water for clues.
Missing person’s posters have been plastered around the market town with Victoria’s face on, including outside the Derwent Arms pub, where searchers have gathered.
The pub has opened its doors and acted as a meeting point for those hunting for Victoria, offering free tea and coffee for volunteers.
Those helping search for Victoria – who is engaged to fiance Matthew and has a two-year-old daughter – were today urged to take care on the river bank.
One volunteer wrote on Facebook: ‘Day 9, we miss you so much!!
‘This just seems to get harder as the days go by. We’re doing everything we can to bring you home.
‘Everyone is being absolutely amazing in the search to find you Vixx and we will continue to do so until your home safe and well.
‘It’s a wet day so please wrap up and go careful. I’d advise people to stay away from the river banks today if possible due to the weather over night.’
It comes as police divers have today joined the search for Victoria, MailOnline can reveal.
Frogmen are working with officers equipped with sonar technology and underwater cameras who have been conducting a sweep of the River Derwent while North Yorkshire Police vehicles drive along the verge of the waterway.
They have concentrated their search on a stretch of water close to where Victoria’s clothes were found on a bank in the town of Malton, North Yorkshire.
The mother-of-one who is engaged and has a two-year-old daughter, disappeared last Monday and has not been seen since.
A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police confirmed this afternoon: ‘We have deployed divers today in the search for Victoria Taylor.’
The force revealed yesterday that there is ‘no evidence to suggest any form of third-party involvement’ in the disappearance of Victoria as they released a new CCTV image of her at a bus station.
She left her home around 9am last Monday and was captured on CCTV at a nearby BP garage at 11.35am and at Malton Bus Station at 11.53am.
Police found the discarded green camouflage cap Victoria had been wearing on the garage’s CCTV footage.
Officers also found her rucksack, a salmon pink Vans brand. The items were found lying in the open, not hidden.
Police have been searching the River Derwent between Malton and Low Hutton with sonar technology and underwater cameras.
Sonar equipment can potentially provide rescuers with extremely detailed images of waterways, with its acoustic beams reflecting of any objects found on the river bed and providing a vivid display of data to search teams on the surface.
Speaking yesterday, Inspector Martin Dennison from North Yorkshire Police said: ‘This is an extremely difficult time for Victoria’s family, and we are continuing to do all we can to try and find her.
‘The focus of our search remains the area around the River Derwent and Victoria’s family members are aware of this and the wider strategy that is in place.
‘The family and the police understand the local community wanting to show their support with the searches for Victoria, but we urge people to exercise caution when searching particularly near to the river.’
Sonar technology has been used to great effect by other forces in recent times, with fisherman Thomas Stoddart located in just two days by Police Scotland using the technology last Christmas.
Underwater cameras can also greatly aid rescuers search attempts by providing clear imagery of what lies beneath the waters surface along the roughly three mile long stretch of river.
Searches of the river have intensified this week amid fears that heavy rain forecasted will cause water levels to rise.
In addition to police searching the Derwent, residents of Malton and friends of Victoria have been searching the small market town and putting missing posters up.
The red posters can be seen all across the local community, including on the outside of St Leonard and St Mary Catholic Church in Malton – where it’s believed she hoped to marry fiancé Matthew Williams.
Victoria’s sisters Emma and Heidi are among those helping with the searches.
In a statement on Friday they said: ‘We currently feel sick, distraught and lost following the disappearance of Vixx, but we are trying to focus on the children in the family to maintain a sense of routine at this difficult time.’
As authorities continue in their attempt to locate Victoria, a Facebook page set up by close friend Charlotte Cundill has now gained over 8,000 members.
Charlotte posted in the group, called ‘The Search for Victoria Taylor’, on Monday morning saying that she ‘won’t be giving up’ on finding her ‘beautiful’ friend.
Victoria, who is originally from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, is described as a white woman who is approximately 5ft six inches tall.
She was last spotted wearing blue jeans, a black Adidas original puffer jacket with white stripes down the sleeves and a grey Jack Wills hooded jumper.
