A Lifeline service for disabled shoppers yesterday appealed for help to find a missing wheelchair.

It was borrowed from the Buchan Dial-a-Community Bus Shopmobility unit at Peterhead on Saturday morning, but has not been returned.

Yesterday, staff at the Maiden Street service urged whoever has the chair to hand it back on a no-questions-asked basis.

Helen Willis, who helps coordinate the service, said: “The wheelchair was probably borrowed in good faith, but unfortunately the recipient failed to return it at the end of the morning.

“There is probably a good reason for this. We will ask no questions as we just would like it to be returned.” She added: “Being short of a wheelchair may mean that someone with a real need will have to be turned away.

“We undertake a lot of fundraising, but to replace a wheelchair would be a huge expense to us.” The Shopmobility scheme was re-launched at Peterhead by the Buchan Dial-a-Community Bus service in 2004.

The scheme had been scrapped two years earlier after problems finding volunteers.

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