A pooch with a "bundle of energy" is one of the latest furry teammates to qualify to help bring missing people home.

Maya is a three-year-old springer cross cocker spaniel who will work as part of Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue, a team which helps find missing people, with her owner Sara Turnbull.

After coming to Ms Turnball at seven months old via Breckland Gundogs and training for two and a half years, Maya is now a qualified lowland rescue search dog and will be on call every day of the year.

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At the request of the police, the team is deployed to a given area where Maya, working off lead, searches for vulnerable missing people.

Ms Turnball said: "At the end of the day, Maya and I are a small cog in a big wheel.

"Finding a missing person isn't about an individual, it's about a team, sometimes from multiple agencies working together to get that loved one safely home.

"When not working, Maya's favourite thing is hogging the sofa in the evenings and the more she can get the better."