THE boyfriend of missing Highworth mother-of-four Linda Razzell has made a direct appeal for her to return.

Greg Worrall, 43, said: "Linda, if you can see me now, or see this, your children want you to come home and I want you to come home.

"Your family in Wales, your cousins, they all want you to come home.

"They want to look after you."

Linda, 41, a tutor at Swindon College, has not been seen since making the school run in her home town of Highworth on Tuesday morning.

Police have been searching various locations in Swindon, and divers have been brought in to check Queen's Park lake.

The senior investigating officer, Detective Inspector Paul Jennings, revealed that Linda's mobile phone had been found in an alleyway between Alvescot Road in Old Walcot and Upham Road. It has been sent away for analysis.

Linda has four children Catherine, 14, Emma, nine, Matthew, 11, and five-year-old Robin.

Mr Worrall, his voice breaking, said: "Linda, it is Matthew's birthday on Sunday and you promised him a shopping trip.

"He won't hold you to it, but he just wants you to come home. We love you. Please come home."

Mr Worrall, a Honda worker, said everyone who knows Linda loves her. He said: "She has got a mug at home that says 'you are the best mum in the world,' and she is."

Det Insp Jennings said that he was not ruling out anything at this stage of the investigation.

But he said he was very concerned because there was absolutely no reason why she should go missing.

All 300 police officers currently deployed in Swindon are actively searching for her.

He said: "There is as much chance that she has gone missing of her own accord as that she has been illegally abducted."

Linda, of Pentylands Close in Highworth, is separated from her husband Glyn.

The two were due to attend a court hearing in Swindon yesterday (Thursday) afternoon to attend to the financial details of their split.

She has been with Mr Worrall for about a year.

She is described as white, 5ft 5ins tall, slim with dark curly shoulder length hair which she was wearing in a clip when last seen.

She has blue eyes and small scar on the bridge of her nose.

When last seen she was wearing a grey baggy trousers, a grey shirt-like top, brown slip-on ankle boots and a black half or three-quarter length coat with large plastic buttons.