A TEENAGER reported missing has made contact with the police officers trying to trace her.

Tia Brade, 16, from Islington, reported to Hastings police station on Wednesday evening (January 4), shortly after Sussex Police and Metropolitan Police issued an appeal in the town as she was thought to be there.

A second girl, Leah Silvester (pictured), also 16 and from Islington, is still missing and believed to be in the Hastings area.

Anyone who knows her whereabouts or has seen her is asked to contact Sussex Police via email 101@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101 (Sussex) quoting Met Police reference 16MIS056926.