POLICE are growing increasingly concerned for the safety of a teenage boy who has been missing from his foster home for more than a week.

Richard Lynn, who is 14, lives at a foster home in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, but has not been seen since September 25, when he took a bus to school in Easingwold.

Various sightings have been reported in and around the York area but he has not returned to his foster home.

Richard is about 5ft 5in, thin and has dark brown hair. When last seen, he was wearing a black hooded top with a picture of the rap star Eminem on the front, black, baggy school-type trousers and brown shoes.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on (01609) 783131.