The family of a missing teenage girl who has vanished from east London are appealling for help to trace her.

Tamisha Cherubin, who is 15, was last seen at 6.30pm last night in Nairn Street, Poplar, near the banks of the River Lea about a mile from her home in Bow.

She is around 5ft tall with black, short curly hair and was wearing a black hoodie, yellow Converse trainers and dark tracksuit bottoms the last time she was seen.

Anyone with information on Tamisha’s whereabouts is being urged to call 101, quoting reference 16MIS019128.