Police in Edinburgh are sharing an appeal from colleagues in Durham regarding a missing man who may be in the capital.
Officers are concerned for the welfare of 36-year-old Gavin who was last seen in Spennymoor at around lunchtime on Thursday, November 28.
Gavin is approximately 5ft 8ins tall, with short brown hair, brown eyes and a beard.
He was last seen wearing a dark blue Lonsdale hoody with white stripes down the arms, a striped yellow and black T-shirt, blue jeans, trainers and a Spennymoor Town Football Club bobble hat.
If you have seen Gavin, please contact us on 101, quoting incident reference number 421 of November 28.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.