Police hunting for missing teen disocver he was in village on Saturday

Efforts to trace a teenager who has been missing since the weekend have found he got off a bus in an Aberdeenshire village.

Missing teenager Liam Smith. Picture: Police Scotland

Liam Smith travelled on a 202 Stagecoach service from Aberdeen to Lumphanan on Saturday.

The 16-year-old boarded at the Union Square bus station at 1.11pm and disembarked in the Aberdeenshire village at 2.44pm.

He is white, 6ft 4in and of slim build with short brown hair.

When last seen he was wearing a dark top, blue jeans and Nike Air Max trainers, and is also understood to be carrying a camouflage North Face backpack.