Today marks a month since missing teen Alex Bendall was last seen - with police continuing their efforts to locate the 18-year-old.

Alex, known to some as Alice, was last seen at 7.41pm on February 11 in Cornwall Road, Dorchester, with searches taking place across Dorchester and Charminster.

Police have now confirmed that an intensified presence at Westleaze, near Lower Burton, last Sunday was “part of the coordinated efforts to locate missing Alex Bendall”.

Police searches have been carried out with assistance from the National Police Air Service, Dorset Search and Rescue, Wiltshire Search and Rescue, Hampshire Search and Rescue, Dorset Search Dogs, Hampshire Search & Rescue Dogs and Wessex 4x4.

As reported, in an interview with the Dorset Echo at their Charminster home - where Alex lives with father Paul, mother Vicky and sister Mary - the family told how, on Saturday, February 11, Alex went out for a walk, telling Mary they would be back shortly.

Alex is described as 5ft 6ins tall, of slim build, with short brown hair and they were last seen wearing a green Puffa-style body warmer, a black hooded jumper, dark coloured jeans, Dr. Marten boots with a green lace in one boot and purple lace in the other, a bracelet over the cuff on the right arm and carrying a small backpack.

The family have praised the support from the local community who have helped spread the word and search for their missing child.

Friends, former teachers and members of the local community have all helped in the search for Alex.

Vicky, Alex’s mum, said: "You can't underestimate the power that support has when we are going through our living hell. So ‘thank you’ to everybody.

"We of course are pleading, imploring and begging everybody out there to think back to where they were on February 11 and whether they may have seen anything. Please just check your dash cams and door cams because it is not too late to follow a lead and somebody must have seen Alex heading home."

Anyone with information or knowledge as to Alex’s whereabouts is asked to contact Dorset Police at dorset.police.uk/contact or by calling 101, quoting incident number 12:319.