FIVE YEAR old English Springer Spaniel Ralph has been missing from his home in Ilford, Essex, since May 5th, and his best friend Emily-Ann Irving is heartbroken.

Ralph was last seen as he ran off toward a playing field near to the family’s home and since then Emily-Ann and her family have left no stone unturned in their efforts to find him, but everything that the police, hundreds of posters and leaflets, their local newspaper and a posting on TV’s Paul O’Grady’s lost dogs website have so far met with no success.

Ralph is described as entire with an undocked tail; he has a little scar on his nose following an operation and when he vanished he was wearing a black collar with two heartshaped id tags; unfortunately he is not chipped.

If anyone has any information which could help reunite Ralph and Emily-Ann, please call Nicky on 020 8599 6102 or mobile 07971 637 377.