POLICE are appealing for help in tracing teenage brothers who went missing on New Year’s Day.

Dillon and Declan Day were last seen in the Cornforth Avenue area of Middlesbrough on Tuesday, January 1.

Declan, 14, is 5ft 2in and of a medium build, with mousey brown hair and brown eyes while 15-year-old Dillon is 5ft 4in, with blond curly hair that is shaved at the back. He has green eyes and is also of a medium build.

A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police said that the brothers were believed to be in the Berwick Hills or Pallister Park areas of Middlesbrough.

Anyone who knows the siblings or has information about their whereabouts is asked to contact the force on non-emergency number 101 quoting event number SE1823462.