A MISSING man from north Dorset has been found safe after attending a hospital.

Officers had issued an appeal for information earlier today, stating they were "very concerned" for missing Shaftesbury man Paul Wallis.

Mr Wallis, 34, had last been seen between 8.30pm and 9pm yesterday, Friday, when he left an address in Church Close in Bourton, Gillingham.

He did not return to his home in Kavanaught Close in Shaftesbury overnight.

It was understood he returned a car he had borrowed to an address in Chichester Close in Andover, Hampshire, in the early hours of this morning, Saturday.

He sent text messages to his family at around 4.50am today and had not been seen or heard from since.

Police said Mr Wallis attended Salisbury Hospital in Wiltshire at 9.15pm today.