POLICE launched a social media appeal to aid their search for a missing man from Kidlington.

Thames Valley Police asked for information via its Facebook and Twitter profiles this morning to help find Colin Read.

The force said: "[Mr Read] is described as white, around 5ft 7 to 5ft 10 ins tall, medium build, [with] short greying hair, goatee beard, and 'chinstrap'  sideburns."

Officers said Mr Read speaks with a welsh accent and is known to frequently visit Oldbury and Kings Norton in the West Midlands and Flintshire in North Wales. 

They did not say how long he has been missing for.

Anyone with information can call 101.