POLICE have called off a bushland hunt for a missing grandmother.

Rita Braidwood, 76, from Hove, was visiting relatives in Australia when she was last seen on March 26.

Police launched a search of bushland near Sydney after a sighting of a woman.

However, they have now stopped searching.

Mrs Braidwood, who has nine children and 21 grandchildren, disappeared during a shopping trip.

She had only a little money on her and did not have her credit cards or her passport. She is supposed to take medication for a kidney infection.