TEENAGER Tammy Lane disappeared from her home in Nantyglo a week ago today. It is believed she met someone after contacting them on the Internet. LISA STEVENS and ELISE JENKINS report on how the week has unfolded - and how councils are responding to calls by the 15-year-old's mother that chatroom access should not be available at libraries.

Michelle French has not seen her daughter, Tammy, for a week. But we can reveal that the owner of a business in the Brynmawr area says the 15-year-old, from Winchestown, has been contacting him to pass messages on to her family.

For the past two evenings the owner of the Brynmawr Kebab House, in Beaufort Street, says he has received calls from Tammy.

Police say they believe a call he received at 10pm on Monday, saying she was in the Bristol area, was from her - but they still believe she is in the West Midlands.

The kebab shop owner, who did not want to be named, told the Argus that on each of the occasions he had spoken to Tammy she had asked after her mum.

He said: "She asked me how her mum was and whether people had been asking about her.

"I told her that both her mum and dad were missing her and wanted her to come home, but she said she couldn't right now." He last heard from Tammy, who was a regular at the shop, at 3pm yesterday.

He said: "She didn't sound good. I think she wants to come home." It is believed that Tammy disappeared after using an Internet chatroom at the local library in Brynmawr.

Her mother, Michelle French, 33, yesterday told the Argus she believes library Internet stations should not allow the use of chatrooms as they were too dangerous.

She said: "It's just too easy for technology to be abused."

Today, a 30-year-old Birmingham man was due to appear before city magistrates charged under the Child Abduction Act in connection with Tammy's disappearance.