TV bid to find missing teenager

Andrew Gosden, who is just 14, disappeared on Friday September 14 and is believed to have caught a train from Doncaster to London.

The story of his disappearance has been used to launch Missing Kids TV - a channel that will broadcast still photos of missing youngsters in public areas such as hospitals, health centres and libraries.

The channel is currently broadcasting in London and the South East but plans to be expanded nationwide.

Andrew’s father Kevin said: “I’m really glad that Andrew is being broadcast on the channel - publicity really is the only weapon we have left.

“We just have to rely on as many people seeing his photograph as possible and hope that they then spot him.

“People have been fantastic - there have been a lot of reported sightings though, sadly the ones which were backed up by CCTV have turned out not to be him.”

Mr Gosden is currently in London helping on the ground, whilst wife Glenys co-ordinates the search from the family’s Balby home.

“This an extraordinarily difficult time for us,” Kevin said. “It seems like no time at all that the whole family were together watching the Madeline McCann story on TV and sympathising with her mum and dad.

“Now we’re right there in that same story ourselves - it’s a bit of a nightmare. It’s very hard , it just feels like we’ve got so little to go on. “

Four South Yorkshire police officers travelled to London this week to collect CCTV footage from the Metropolitan Police. The film is currently being reviewed.

Anyone with information about Andrew’s whereabouts should contact South Yorkshire Police on 01142 20 20 20 quoting reference 17824.