MISSING Gwent student Rebekah Milford (pictured) has been found safe and well in Exeter.

The 21-year-old disappeared on Thursday night after an evening out with friends in Newport.

Ms Milford, who is studying documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport, was reported missing at 3am on Thursday.

Her friends, who share the same halls of residence at the Caerleon campus, raised the alarm when she failed to return home.

Ms Milford had been out with fellow students at bars and clubs in Newport city centre before she disappeared from the Zanzibar night club, Stow Hill.

Police received an unconfirmed sighting of the student in Exeter and Gwent officers travelled to the city yesterday afternoon to scan CCTV footage. But while police were in Exeter, Ms Milford called her friends to tell them she was in the city.

Her parents, who are flying back from a holiday in Egypt, and her two brothers were informed by police she was missing.