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Missing West Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive, it has been reported.

West Yorkshire Police are yet to confirm that she has been found but said they were investigating reports the nine-year-old had been found.

She was last seen at Westmoor Junior School, Dewsbury on 19 February.

The force said the operation was the biggest missing person's case it had undertaken since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7296756.stm

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New story!!

Missing West Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been found alive, three weeks after going missing.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed the girl had been found concealed in the base of a divan bed in a house in Lidgate Gardens in Batley Carr.

Neighbours said police smashed their way in and emerged carrying Shannon who was last seen leaving Westmoor Junior School in Dewsbury on 19 February.

A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of abduction.

The young girl looked "quite calm" and officers confirmed that she was ok, the neighbours added.

Shannon's aunt Amanda Hyett said the schoolgirl's mother Karen Matthews had been driven away by police from the family home shortly before 1400 GMT.

Earlier this week mother-of-seven Mrs Matthews, 32, said she believed someone she knows had snatched her daughter to hurt her.

Mrs Matthews said: "She got abducted. That's all I can say."

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It's good she's been found alive. I can't help but think though had her parents been middle-class doctors the media would've promoted her story to the front pages and headlines everyday for the last three weeks. When this news broke I couldn't even remember hearing about her going missing initially or who she was.

Shannon's mother has come in for a lot of stick from the press apparently, just as we all speculated would happen last year during the Madeline McCann saga had her parents been poor, or she had had only one.

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I have to say I am starting to always tune to Sky News now for breaking news. BBC News is becoming unreliable and slow. Even when they do a break story first they appear to get the information wrong.

Although I did see one of Sky's reporters burst into the house of the parents to try and get a scoop or find someone to interview. That was rather cringey.

I can't help wondering whether there was a hoax behind this though. Shannon's mother knew she was alive and said it up till the last day. Maybe it's just optimism, but it seemed odd that we then hear this.

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I just laughed when i heard - Found in a draw under a bed.

Missing people seem to be hiding in such obvious places these days, with the man behind the wardrobe and Shannon under a bed. Maybe the hunt for Madeleine should check behind the apartment curtains?

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I just laughed when i heard - Found in a draw under a bed.

Missing people seem to be hiding in such obvious places these days, with the man behind the wardrobe and Shannon under a bed. Maybe the hunt for Madeleine should check behind the apartment curtains?

I some how doubt she was 'hiding' :P But glad shes alive and safe

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I reckon it'll be quite a while before they actually detangle why she was taken and what the deal is with her family. They seem like some strange people. It is odd that her mother suddenly decided a couple of days ago that she'd been taken by someone who knew her to get at her, suggests there were some serious family issues.

It's good that a missing kid has been found alive though.

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"Shannon vanished on 19 February and was found 24 days later after one of the largest missing person hunt's West Yorkshire Police had ever conducted."

Arghhh the BBC should know better than to misuse apostrophes!

It doesn't look like she'll be getting her kids back any time soon. The case gets more complex by the day.

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I think from day one we were aware it wasn't going to be a straight forward 'nasty man on your street' abduction. Everyone was quick to point the finger at the family for knocking, and then it we were told it was some man that just happened to live close to the grandparents and rumours died down.

Don't think you're too psychic there Tamba...

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