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Police are appealing for help to trace a teenage girl who has been missing from home.
Fourteen-year-old Katie Thomas from Kirk Michael was reported missing on Friday, but was seen in Douglas at around 2.20pm the following day.
Officers say she has been in touch with police by phone but is refusing to return home.
She is described as five feet, two inches tall, of medium build, with dyed, dark red, shoulder length hair. She was wearing blue jeans, a grey and purple Lonsdale hooded top and grey woolen boots.
Anybody with information regarding her whereabouts is asked to ring police on 631212.
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