A national poster campaign has been started to find a Bradford University student who went missing more than two months ago.

Posters will be displayed on the sides of lorries travelling around the country to help trace Nazish Javed.

The posters have been produced by the National Missing Persons Helpline and feature a picture of the 19-year-old and a telephone number to call for anyone with information.

Miss Javed has not been seen since she was dropped off for lectures outside the university's Richmond Building by her father on Tuesday, October 14, at 8.40am.

Her worried father, Aftab Javed, today made a fresh appeal for his daughter, a clinical sciences student who has never been missing before, to return home.

"She was really looking forward to her studies and was training to become a doctor," said the 43-year-old father. "We just want her to get in touch with us but wouldn't mind if she contacted anybody to say she was okay. It feels as though somebody has snatched something very important off you and we are finding it hard to cope."

Miss Javed, of Park Place, Halifax, is 5ft 4ins tall, medium build and has shoulder length black hair.

She has had her 19th birthday during the time she has been missing.

She was wearing a white duffel coat, white top, blue jeans and white trainers on the day she disappeared.

A West Yorkshire police spokesman said: "Anything that helps us to trace Nazish is welcome.

''Inquiries are continuing by uniformed officers and detectives in Halifax.

Anyone with any information about Miss Javed should contact Calderdale Police on (01422) 337059.

Sophie Woodforde, a spokesman for the National Missing Persons Helpline, said: "Everyone is greatly concerned for Nazish.

"Her disappearance seems to be completely out of character.

If she reads this we urge her to contact us in complete confidence via our free Message Home Helpline on 0800 700 740."