4:37pm UK, Friday May 16, 2008

Police have found a three-year-old boy who disappeared from Blackburn town centre in Lancashire.

Lee Loram had last been seen at Blackburn Market with his mother and brother around midday.

A police helicopter was scrambled and hovered over the town centre looking for him as officers scoured the streets on foot to find him.

Detectives had asked for the public's help in trying to find Lee and issued a description.

It is not known whether the toddler, described as white with short, dark brown hair and brown eyes and a pale complexion, had simply wandered off from his mother.

He was wearing a grey and blue jumper when he went missing.